The house is on 12 acres in a private, rural part of Salt Spring Island, but only 15 minutes drive to the town of Ganges. It has spectacular 180º views of the southern Gulf Islands, the Burgoyne Valley, the Coast Mountains, Mt. Baker, and the Olympic Range. Only two or three other properties on Salt Spring Island enjoy such a panoramic view.
Salt Spring is known for its waterfront and ocean-view homes, artistic community, organic farms, and hillside vineyards. Since the island has over 10,000 residents (up to 20,000 in the summer), Ganges Village is self-sufficient, with normal town services, including restaurants, supermarkets, gas-stations, a 65-bed hospital, and various other shops and amenities.
The island enjoys a mild, temperate climate. It’s mountainous, with protected parks that offer some of the most outstanding scenery in the world.
Nature is enjoyed everywhere: sailing, kayaking, whale-watching, golfing, swimming in the island's 11 lakes and along its 80 miles of beaches, or just hiking over trails in virgin forests where the deer are tame, the air is clear, the silence deep.
Getting around
Salt Spring Island is easy to get to: From Vancouver or Victoria, by either scheduled car-ferries (three different ports) or seaplanes (many daily flights from Vancouver, or Vancouver International Airport). From Victoria international airport the ferry is 35 minutes; from Vancouver the ferries range from 1.4 hours (direct) to 3 hours (island-hopping).
Salt Spring is the largest and most populated of the 200 Gulf Islands between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. At 27 km (17 miles) long and 14 km (9 miles) wide, Salt Spring is 185 square km (74 square miles), about the size of Hong Kong Island and three times the size of Bermuda or Manhattan. It takes 45 minutes to drive from top to bottom.