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East Point, So Close but So Far

East Point, Saturna Island, BC
9:40 On the beach looking up at the ‘Fog Horn’ building

Saturna Island is one of my favourite getaway spots. It’s only 15 miles from Salt Spring but can be a very long and convoluted way via ferry. As in four or five hours.

And East Point is a wonderful place to explore, especially in the early morning and in the evening when you may be the only one there. On this recent morning, I was getting in one more photo walk along the shore before heading back to the ferry terminal for the 10:20 am boat to Swartz Bay.

Come back tomorrow for two more sandstone sculpture images from this shoreline.

Looking South to the US of A

South to the USA

Early winter afternoon view from high on southern Salt Spring Island. We’re looking over Portland and Moresby islands to the right and Pender Island (with Saturna Island behind) on the left. Mount Baker and the North Cascade Mountains are putting on a snowy show down there in the USA.

The ferry in front of Portland Island is heading for Swartz Bay (near Victoria) on Vancouver Island. And, in the foreground, the Skeena Queen is chugging along towards Fulford Harbour on Salt Spring Island.

Wonky Self-Sufficient SEEC Buildings

SEEC Building on Saturna
The Saturna Ecological Education Centre (SEEC) is an experiential, place-based ecological learning centre on beautiful Saturna Island, British Columbia. SEEC is part of School District 64, Gulf Islands.

Above is the multi-purpose building, one of several fun SEEC structures in ‘Haggis Hollow’—and all of them built ‘off-kilter’. This week’s ‘Saturday Home’.

I was surprised to learn that the wood stove in this building heats, by way of underground pipes, the other SEEC buildings.

From the SEEC website:

Our high school students live and learn in funky little cabins within the alder forest of Haggis Farm. This unique, locally-designed facility is totally off-the-grid and powered by our own micro-hydro and solar power systems. It features two six-bunk cabins (one for each gender), washroom huts, a caretaker’s cabin and a main multi-purpose building that serves as a kitchen, dining hall, classroom and meeting area. Our students learn how to live and work together to look after the site and take responsibility for their own comforts and needs by chopping wood, making fires in the wood stove, cooking, cleaning, maintaining the facilities, and working on legacy projects that add new features to the Hollow like our challenge course, disc golf course, brick walkways, rock garden and landscaping.

East Point Colour

East Point Sunset, Saturna 20140908

Sunset at East Point, Saturna Island

This is the follow-up to yesterday’s East Point Moonrise post. This photo was taken from the same spot, in the opposite direction, a minute or so later. The image has not been manipulated or enhanced, the colours are accurate.

Spectacular evening. Thank-you Saturna, I’ll see you again.

Photos by John Cameron

Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).

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