A superb summer evening aboard the Bowen Queen, crossing Georgia Strait

What Islanders call the ‘direct’ run from Tsawwassen (near Vancouver) to Long Harbour on Salt Spring Island. This unusual BC Ferries run tends to both leave and arrive on time and cuts travel time to half or sometimes to much less than half of the more common, multiple island stop run.

The bonuses this warm summer evening were calm seas, gorgeous skies, three ferries in Active Pass (!) and waiting for a pod of Orcas to swim by. Did I mention that we left and arrived on time?