
Mount Baker and the North Cascade range (about 100 km away) are rarely seen from Salt Spring Island in November. We may not see this view again for some time. Zip up that GoreTex jacket.
Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

Mount Baker and the North Cascade range (about 100 km away) are rarely seen from Salt Spring Island in November. We may not see this view again for some time. Zip up that GoreTex jacket.

6:55 am on the ‘Pyjama Boat’
Mayne Island Terminal in the distance as we head toward Active Pass and Tswwassen on the mainland, aboard the Queen of Nanaimo. The is the Saturday ‘early boat’ AKA the ‘Pyjama Boat’. Salt Springers take this sailing as it makes no stops on it’s way to the Vancouver area; sometimes saves a couple of hours.

There’s the Queen (of Nanaimo) at Long Harbour on Salt Spring Island.
She’s ready to ferry another load to the other southern Gulf Islands and to Tsawwassen on the BC mainland on ‘Route 9’.
And I believe she’s due to be replaced by two new ‘Intermediate Class’ vessels in October 2016, and in April 2017.

Sort of a nice day for an ocean voyage.

August long weekend ferry overload
Mystery:
With little to do—squashed onto the Swartz Bay to Fulford ferry—I decided to wander around to see what I could see. Had a good talk with a guy about the Toyo tires on his Tacoma, something I need on mine soonish. Then I noticed some feet sticking out of a white car (perhaps a GM of some type) reading a book.
Wait; the feet weren’t reading the book and neither was the car. Someone with green rolled up pants was reading the book with her feet sticking out the window. I headed down to the car deck to see if there might be an interesting photo. Note the position of the green ‘pressure washing’ truck.
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Eight minutes later (On the way I stopped to take a funny photo of two men sleeping sitting up in their car, one with a seat belt across his face. I decided not to show you that photo). Anyway, no long distracted, I went searching for the feet. Found them. And now with a table saw jammed into the trunk and ‘secured’ with a skipping rope, yellow polly rope and some heavy duty fishing line. So, good photo I thought.
But when I loaded the images onto my computer I noticed the car was no longer beside the green truck but parked behind it, the white car was now a silver VW and the feet…well the feet look exactly the same. 
Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).