But it's a crappy boat. It's just a plane that can land on water. It was years and years of flying the Beaver up and down the Inside Passage to and from SE Alaska that convinced my wife an I to get a larger boat so we could one day explore the Passage by water. All those years of looking down on beautiful bays and coves and not being able to visit them in the plane is what did it.
Besides being too small, the only time you can stop worrying about a seaplane is when it's out of the water and tied down. Otherwise it's very, very vulnerable to damage, even the big ones. Even with the plane backed up onto shore, if the wind comes up even just a bit during the night one of us is getting up every hour or so and go down and check the plane to make sure the floats aren't hitting the bottom as waves move the plane up and down, that all the lines are secure, and so on. A seaplane in the bush, or anywhere in the water, is not something you can walk away from and forget about for awhile like you can with a boat tied to a dock or on a mooring.
The photo is of one of our favorite places to camp in the BC coast range. We even spent our honeymoon here. The nearest settlement is over 100 miles away, and the plane is the only way in or out. No radio contact, nothing. This little cove is pretty protected from the main lake, but we check on the plane frequently throughout each day and night. Big bears here, too.