A LARGER BC FERRY COMING INTO DOCK

Posted by Anne (White Rock, Canada) on 20 August 2007 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

I fell in love with the scenery here in this Bay. A couple of years ago something went wrong with one of the boats - it didn't slow down enough coming into the harbour. I guess the captain had to make a decision where to point it. He plowed it straight through all the small boats in the Marina and it ended up beached. There was a huge outcry and a lot of lawsuits. But I think he made the right decision here, because if he had gone straight forward into the ferry dock, all the terminal, ramps for passengers and cars which run from the highway would have come down, disrupting all ferry travel for goodness knows how long. Many people who work in Vancouver and live on the small islands depend on the ferry to get to work each day. I guess its all over now and it cost millions of dollars in settlements. The bill would have been much more humongous if the terminal had been destroyed though. Anyway, the scenery is beautiful now! :-)

Well! I am back and missed being away so long due to ill health. It was a bit of a struggle to find energy to stay on my computer and post. My daughter Lesley and her husband Robin, gave me this wonderful gift of a cruise to Alaska and Lesley and I had a whale of a time! I could just live on that ship - absolutely wanted for nothing! Hope to hear from you all! Don't know how much I can get around posting comments - so will probably have to keep them brief - but will try to get around as much as I can! Thanks to all my friends for their good wishes!

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