Montague Harbour to Ganges, 12 ½ miles, 1 hour

We just hung out and had breakfast, and headed out around 12:30pm. We arrived at Ganges (Salt Spring Island) about an hour later. We watched sea planes take off and land left and right. Must be rush hour ;-) We decided to head to shore to have lunch since this was more like a little town than we have seen in a few days. I was last here in 2005 and it looks pretty much the same. We stopped at a place right above the marine call the Oystercatcher. Great place. I had the halibut tacos, which were fresh and awesome. For dessert, they had these homemade doughnuts with caramel and strawberry sauces, which sounded intriguing. But after we saw the neighboring table order them, we had to have some. Delish! After lunch, we headed back to the boat, so Monica and Heather walked around for a few hours. There are many shops, galleries, etc to walk around in. They called Fred (the taxi) to go get them from shore. As they were heading back to the boat, a sea plane was just taxiing away from the dock and was heading the same way we were. Looked like they were racing. We fought with our internet connection for a while tonight to try and check our e-mail. But other than that just chatted and watched the boats all bob back and forth in the cove. At dusk, we start seeing a large boat heading our way in the distance. As it got closer, Fred recognized it as the ‘After Eight’, which he has seen over the years up and down the coast. It is a 150’ mega yacht. Very nice as we watched it come it to dock and the 4+ crew that we could see, all bustled around to tie up the boat and get them settled. That doesn't even include what I would imagine to be a chef, butler, wait staff, housekeeping, etc. We looked the ship up online and it said it can house a crew of 12. Must be nice. Heather, Monica and I had some dessert and just chatted for a while before heading to bed.