Bowen Island

For those of you who are planning your next trip, here is a little taster of what is just a fifteen minute ferry ride away from Horseshoe Bay on the North Shore.
This is Killarney Lake on Bowen Island. There is also an area of East Vancouver called Killarney, no idea whether or not Mavaureen is the flower of either.














Some of the coastal areas of BC are temperate rainforest and Crippen Regional Park is a good example of this, on the forest floor, sword ferns, moss, mushrooms, plants that need little light because the forest canopy is where it's all happening.















There is a point in Killarney lake where it was dammed quite a while ago and now it appears that these trees are damned. The petrified forest stands and waits, it's green life of leaves over and its home to birds and animals yet to come. These trees become wildlife trees and they live a second life longer and with more impact on the ecosystem than the first.































Here at Snug Cove they sometimes use another method of transport. (You may need to click on the photo to see what I'm talking about.) Just as well. I was told that there were no petrol stations on Bowen Island. I'm not sure whether this is true, but I'm prepared to believe it.
I don't believe they have any secondary schools. When we were waiting for the ferry back, a huge flock of teenage children disembarked from the incoming one and filled up three waiting school buses.
Snug Cove has a cluster of little artisan shops, a gift shop, a gallery, a cafe, a dress shop with beautiful individual designs and a couple of interesting-looking restaurants.