This is a view I hadn’t seen before today. I’m guessing that’s true for a lot of people.

While riding shotgun with Phil from SaltSpring Air I couldn’t place this mountain lake. I mean it’s a big lake only a few seconds away (at 100 mph) from Mount Erskine. And it’s obviously on fairly flat terrain but seemingly perched near a huge drop-off to the ocean. Then it dawned on me that the farm in the foreground must be Foxglove Farm…on the mostly steep and lumpy road to…Mount Maxwell.

Mount Maxwell Lake is home to the best piped water on Salt Spring Island. Although it’s a protected watershed located on private property, I hear it’s frequented by swimmers, sometimes sans swimsuits. Don’t know. Never been there.