The Beaver! I LOVE those things...built like a Brick Sh**house...land anywhere, and roomy as all get out!
When I first saw one, I was surprised at how big it was!
You are a lucky man...
I knew a guy, he passed away about ten years ago, who used to be a bush pilot in Alaska back in the Thirties. There is something to have on your resume! That must have been a wild ride.
He was really interesting (his best friend used to be the CEO of Standard and Poor many years ago). When he was an Army officer in WWII, he was assigned to be the Provost Marshal for the Hiroshima Prefecture after the invasion. When they dropped the bomb, they sent him to manage the situation in Korea.
It was his job to get the surrendered Japanese out of Korea before the Koreans turned on them and tried to kill them.
This guy hated the Japanese. He wouldn’t even discuss them if the subject came up, but would turn his back and walk away.
When I asked his friend why, he said that the guy had confided in him many of the awful things he had seen actual evidence of under the Japanese rule there.