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Why-Ack Brave ex Maranatha II

Why-Ack Brave on the hard Built: 1937, A.C. Benson, Vancouver Gross Tonnage: 34.73 Net Tonnage: 11.65 Length (m): 13.69 Breadth (m): 4.57 Depth (m): 2.32

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Smokey evening – Active Pass

I spent some time at Georgina Point on Maybe Island while watching BC Ferries ships heading through Active Pass Island. The sky was hazy and gray, filled with smoke from forest fires burning in the British Columbia interior.

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Mayne Island – Active Pass

A pair of videos of BC Ferries heading into Active Pass after transiting Georgia Strait en route to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island

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Salish eagle

BC Ferries’ Salish Eagle heading into Active Pass

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Red and Green

Port and starboard (red and green) channel markers at Swartz Bay Birds are extra…

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Mayne Island – Georgina Point life boat

An old lifeboat at Georgina Point light station on Mayne Island

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Bowen Queen

Bowen Queen heading out from the BC Ferries terminal at Village Bay on Mayne Island

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Bowen Queen and Salish Eagle

Two of the BC Ferries fleet heading to Swartz Bay – Bowen Queen and Salish Eagle

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Skeena Queen

Skeena Queen heading into the BC Ferries terminal at BC Swartz Bay

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Skeena Queen

Skeena Queen heading into the BC Ferries terminal at BC Swartz Bay

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