Islands Vacation 1

Friday, June 12th, we hit the road at 4am in order to shoot for a ferry reservation clear across the province of BC. We know it takes *about* 10 hours to get there, needed to be at the landing 40 minutes before sailing or lose our reservation (what’s up with that???), and needed to allow for road construction or other reasons that 10 hours wouldn’t be enough. If we missed that 4:05 ferry, the next one would be at 8:30. Too long to wait! Well, we made it on time, and caught the inter-island ferry to Galiano Island. Our son and daughter-in-law, students at UVic in Victoria, had arrived about half an hour before we did. They’d walked on a ferry from the Vancouver Island side.

We pitched our tents at Montague Harbour Provincial Park where the rocks have eroded into the coolest shapes ever:

We enjoyed a great hike along a ridge on Saturday afternoon.

Also got cool shots of a great blue heron in the harbor:

That same harbor also provided an awesome backdrop for a peaceful sunset:

Sunday afternoon we caught the ferry to Victoria. J&J needed to be back to work Monday morning, and we did a bit of laundry before heading out on the next leg of our vacation.