Howe Sound is a body of water just north of Vancouver, British Columbia. It is comprised of a number of small fjords separated by a number of islands. I grew up on the Sunshine Coast to the north, and have ridden the BC (British Columbia) Ferry across the sound on more occasions than I care to remember. I rode it across the other day. I submit the following photo evidence.
Looking Out From The Deck Of A Horseshoe Bay Departing Ferry
Howe Sound facts:
- Spanish explorers observed the sound in 1791 and named it Boca del Carmelo.
- Captain Vancouver surveyed the sound in 1792, and named it after Admiral Earl Howe.
- The Squamish and Shishalh Indigenous people were there for many thousands of years before the Europeans, and wikipedia doesn’t know what they called it.
- By 1929 the largest copper mine in the British Empire existed on the shores of the sound at Britannia Beach.
- The legacy of the amount of toxic effluent pumped into the sound from that operation is still being dealt with today.
- Squamish, at the upper end of Howe Sound, is known as the Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada.
- Squamish is also one of the wettest inhabited locations in Canada.
- Unrelated but Wikipedia is awesome. Hooray for living in the future!!!
Welcome to the West Coast: the land of my origins.
I waited for a moment when they weren’t canoodling. Out in the water we see Gambier, Anvil, and Bowyer Islands.
Starboard Zodiac & Morning Misty Mountains
The Peaks That Tempt And Beckon
And I Think To Myself What A Wonderful World
Meanwhile At The Back Of The Boat
Welcome Aboard The Queen of Coquitlam
Portside View
If You Can See This Island Then You’re Nearly Docked
We Are Now Approaching Langdale Ferry Terminal
A Successful Voyage
