Float flying was the most fun I've ever had in an airplane.

You'll enjoy it best if you have a background in sailing. On the water the
floatplane is a big, clumsy, topheavy sailboat; it weathercocks unless you
have some power in, and if there's any current going you have to allow for
that, too. Before you tie down, you have to dock the thing -- with power
off the last few yards, because there's no brakes.

So it's a challenge. My instructor pointed out that most floatplane
accidents are really boating accidents.

Coming back from my checkride, in a 172, the examiner said "If you can put
me on the dock with dry shoes, you pass."

I've never really believed the old saw that any landing you walk away from
is a good landing. But then it struck me: The guy who said it was a
floatplane pilot.

Because any landing you swim away from really was a bad landing.

Seth