Vancouver Island
Wet Start - Mixed Week Thu Oct 7th Earl's Cove - waiting for the ferry It was a dark o'clock start to get to Vancouver Island on Tuesday morning. We were heading up to Royston on the North East side of the Island so had booked to take the ninety minute ferry from Powell River at the top of the Sunshine Coast to Comox. The hotel, Kingfisher Ocean Resort was OK, though the choice of rooms that would accommodate dogs was a bit limited. The food was 5* excellent. BC Ferries network is vast, but not always logically connected. Powell River is reached via a 50 minute ferry sailling from Earls Cove towards in the middle of the Sunshine Coast (just over an hour from Gibsons) to Saltery Bay. It's then a 30 minute drive up to Powell River. The ferry time means you arrive at Powell River as the ferry departs for Comox, making it impossible to check-in 'no later than 30 minutes prior to departure' as required by BC Ferries. We had two and a half hours to w...