June 29 25
Day 12 From Vancouver, to Lund and Savary Island:
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We begin our road trip at Gibsons:
Today we have to drive to Lund to catch a water taxi at 10 am, so we get up and pack peaut butter sandwiches. We drive from Powell River (Tiskwat) to Lund (Klahmen) stopping on the way for some provisions and buy two hats at the corner store on indigenous lands because its going to be hot today and we need protection from the sun.
We get to Lund which is where highway 101 ends (or stats depending on your point of view). Ther eis not much there except a harbour and a wharf. There’s no parking in Lund, so we have to leave the car far away. We are booked on the taxi and our names are on a list on a clipboard, so we are told we get in which we do then we have to change to another water taxi as we are in the wrong one.
The taxis are metal boats, small speedboats with comfortable seating. It’s a sort of bus with metal seats. We pull out of the harbour gently ad quietly but once we clear the harbour area, the driver puts his foot on the pedal and we rise out of the wate and speed towards Savary. It takes only ten minutes.
Savary is unutterably gorgeous and I swim in a blue sea with pink star fish and mountains in the distance, dark under a blue blue sky. The beach is pale sand and the land is covered in deep green fir trees. It’s still June so the water is cold but good. (to be continued…)
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