Biking on Saltspring Island

I had heard sometime ago about an island on the West Coast where the islanders made their own money. Well, I just find that this island is Saltspring, an middle island nearby Vancouver Island. We leave UVic early (7:03) this Sunday morning and we catch the 14. But I can't find the bus stop of the 70. So we miss the bus. We wait for the next one in a small café we're we drink a coffee (the cafeteria doesn't open before 7:15, so we doesn't had taken breakfast). It was 8:35 when we finally leave Victoria in the bus 70.

We sit in the second level of this two floor bus and we enjoy the ride. We saw the coast, we cross Sidney, a pretty small town, and we arrive about an hour after at Schwartz Bay, the end of the road, where the BC Ferries leaves to Saltspring Island and to Vancouver. But we also miss the ferry so we must wait an hour. The ferry wasn't so big, like the one that cross Saguenay River on the North Coast. It takes 35 minutes to get at Saltspring Island.

It was like arriving on some small harbor in Newfoundland : forest everywhere and some bright color little house sitting on rock. But when we approach this houses, we are quite sure that we aren't at Newfoundland : It's look like hippies land, with organic stuff, old cars, campers and a chill out ambiance. We eat some sandwich at the small restaurant that looks like it was getting out of The Flintstones' Bedrocks. The woman that serves us speak french and obviously was coming from Quebec. She serve only vegetarian organic food in wood plates.

After lunch, we rent bikes and do some riding around the island. There's big hill along the way and we don't go far as I was hoping. So we just saw a small part of the island before coming back at UVic. But it was a quite funny day.