Even though it was my day off, I got up quite early today. Since it was Saturday, I had decided to finally go and check out Salt Spring Island.
Sara and Simone joined me and we met up on the bus to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal.
We arrived about 50 minutes early in order to have enough time to board the ferry. However, the ferry was 20 minutes late so that we ended up waiting way too long. For some reason, it read 'MARS' on our ferry tickets, thus we were joking around that we would be going to Mars instead of Salt Spring Island.
When we could finally board the ferry, we went upstairs and sat down on a bench outside at first. However, it was cooler outside than I had expected so we ended up spending the ferry ride inside.
Even though there were too many passengers, we managed to catch the first bus to Ganges. Just before we arrived in the village, the bus driver motivated most passengers to sing 'Yellow Submarine', which was kind of weird but cool.
After looking around the village, our first stop was at 'Barbs Buns' to eat lunch. At first Simone and Sara got a wrong meal and when they finally got the right meal 10 minutes later, there was still something wrong with Simone's meal, so that she had to send it back once again. I just had a vegetable soup but it turned out to be too spicy for me to enjoy it. When we got the bill, Simone complained about having to pay for her meal after all the mix-ups and the waiting time. The server was quite unfriendly about it but we ended up not having to pay for all of our meals because of it.
Next we checked out the famous Saturday island market and the view from the harbor.
As I still needed change for the bus back, I bought a baker's dozen mini donuts for all of us. As it turned out, it was a very generous dozen since we got 15 donuts. Soon after we discovered a lot of wild blackberries which we snacked on.
As there was still a lot of time until the next bus, we walked through a forest which was also a disc golf course.
When we were back at the harbor we still had almost an hour until the bus was supposed to leave. As we didn't feel like doing much, we just sat on the ground and relaxed.
Unfortunately, we couldn't take the bus we wanted to take as there wasn't enough space left on the bus for us. There was an extra bus 15 minutes later, though, and we were still in time for the ferry. In fact, the ferry was more than 20 minutes late this time.
Back on Vancouver Island we caught a bus right away. It was the 72, which was more slowly than the 70 as it took the scenic road closer to the coast down to Victoria. By now I was feeling quite sleepy and exhausted due to all the sitting and waiting today.
Sara and Simone joined me and we met up on the bus to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal.
We arrived about 50 minutes early in order to have enough time to board the ferry. However, the ferry was 20 minutes late so that we ended up waiting way too long. For some reason, it read 'MARS' on our ferry tickets, thus we were joking around that we would be going to Mars instead of Salt Spring Island.
When we could finally board the ferry, we went upstairs and sat down on a bench outside at first. However, it was cooler outside than I had expected so we ended up spending the ferry ride inside.
Even though there were too many passengers, we managed to catch the first bus to Ganges. Just before we arrived in the village, the bus driver motivated most passengers to sing 'Yellow Submarine', which was kind of weird but cool.
After looking around the village, our first stop was at 'Barbs Buns' to eat lunch. At first Simone and Sara got a wrong meal and when they finally got the right meal 10 minutes later, there was still something wrong with Simone's meal, so that she had to send it back once again. I just had a vegetable soup but it turned out to be too spicy for me to enjoy it. When we got the bill, Simone complained about having to pay for her meal after all the mix-ups and the waiting time. The server was quite unfriendly about it but we ended up not having to pay for all of our meals because of it.
Next we checked out the famous Saturday island market and the view from the harbor.
As I still needed change for the bus back, I bought a baker's dozen mini donuts for all of us. As it turned out, it was a very generous dozen since we got 15 donuts. Soon after we discovered a lot of wild blackberries which we snacked on.
As there was still a lot of time until the next bus, we walked through a forest which was also a disc golf course.
When we were back at the harbor we still had almost an hour until the bus was supposed to leave. As we didn't feel like doing much, we just sat on the ground and relaxed.
Unfortunately, we couldn't take the bus we wanted to take as there wasn't enough space left on the bus for us. There was an extra bus 15 minutes later, though, and we were still in time for the ferry. In fact, the ferry was more than 20 minutes late this time.
Back on Vancouver Island we caught a bus right away. It was the 72, which was more slowly than the 70 as it took the scenic road closer to the coast down to Victoria. By now I was feeling quite sleepy and exhausted due to all the sitting and waiting today.
As I would have just missed my transfer bus home in Downtown anyway, I decided to try and get some more free pizza at work. I was lucky, this time they even had some nice chicken pizza. I spent almost an hour in the lunchroom getting to know some more coworkers from 'Moose Crossing' and enjoying some pizza and cake. When I was done, I actually felt a lot more energetic. I finally caught a bus home around 9 PM.
Definitely on of the Vancouver islands I want to go! And also Pender Island! Let's go take the ferry!
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