Sorry about the title. That's horrible. Even I cringed and I wrote it.

For those without a mental map of Western Canada (i.e most of the Southern Hemisphere and most Americans), just off the coast of Vancouver is a big-arsed island, creatively named Vancouver Island. On Vancouver island lies the capital of BC, Victoria (oh wow, that's original). To get between the cities you need to get a ferry, and not some pansy Sydney ferry, I'm talking baby cruise ship size.

Anyway, it's an hour and a half from Vancouver Island to the mainland and the ferry winds its way through the Gulf Islands to get there, giving stoked first-time passengers (like myself) ample opportunity to waste camera batteries.

Mine are rechargeable, so ner.

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These things take like 250 cars and a buttload of passengers, so loading is quite an experience. It looks something like this:



Rival ferry at the dock (ours was bigger, not that I was comparing size or anything. But it was bigger. Much. And more impressive. Ladies...)



Oooh how'd that get in there?



Apparently they don't race ferries, which is good, because we'd be losing in this pic.. and it'd be a pretty crap spectator sport:



One from the 'sun deck'..:



Aaaand finally, somewhere between the islands: