
First light at Shingle Bay Campground on Pender Island (a new part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve).

The campground looks over this islet towards Salt Spring Island.
Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

First light at Shingle Bay Campground on Pender Island (a new part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve).

The campground looks over this islet towards Salt Spring Island.

Qualifies for a bucket-list-caliber-activity for me. How about you—have you wanted to see this up close and personal?
The new signage in the Mount Maxwell area makes for confident hikers. Remember to stay on the trails!

The south-western slopes are stating to brown up, but here’s still ample greenness in this area of Salt Spring Island.

Foxgloves burst out of the ground in May and are around for much of the summer.
These two were growing together on the west side of a Salt Spring Island mountain.
Nice work Mother Nature!


For those of you not currently living on, or visiting Salt Spring Island, we’ve been having summer-like weather lately. So summer-like that just around the corner from this scene were some naked human seals— jumping into the icy ocean water and splashing about.
Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).