Horseshoe Bay

It was just horrible.

On October 18th, during the Queen of Surrey's afternoon sailing between Langdale and Horseshoe Bay, BC Ferries reported striking a whale in the waters south of Grace Island.

Look it, do you see that? The animal was seen surfacing after that strike with significant blood in the water.

Authorities were not able to identify it at the time but 10 days later this whale surfaced near Gambier Island floating belly up and its fluke

On Tuesday, the Marine Education and Research Society said the dead whale was seen near the Grace Islands.

That was a little over a week after the Queen of Surrey hit a whale on its run from Langdale to Horseshoe Bay on October 18.

The Society expects a necropsy but says injuries on the outside of the body point to a strike by a vessel.

Passengers at the time said they saw the whale come up in front of the bow, then again behind the ferry, thrashing in reddened water.

It's like I

was pulling up to the ferry to take it here in Vancouver, Horseshoe Bay, and it pulled up the QR code sent to me via text message that I needed to scan.

And so I think one of the things that's really interesting is that you're like, well, how helpful could this be? If you objectively evaluated how much friction that you have in your life.

Even if you have that email or even if you wouldn't have that login, but just sort of organizing it, delivering it, in some ways drowning out the noise, that's where things get really, really interesting.

In fact, I suspect it died very quickly.

It happened on Sunday afternoon in the waters south of Grace Island during the Queen of Surrey's afternoon sailing between Langdale and Horseshoe Bay.

BC Ferries was not available for comment, but in a statement said the whales surfaced directly in front of the vessel, leaving the crew with very little time to react.

The incident was immediately reported to the appropriate authorities.

It's at all different hotels all over western Canada, and this year it was on Barnabas Landing, which is on Keats Island, which is just off Gibsons.

Uh, normally you would take a ferry to Gibsons, but they picked us up in a boat at Horseshoe Bay-

Right at Horseshoe Bay

... which was really nice.

Today, the party announced a locals first ferry reservation pilot program, which they say would see 12% of advance booking space set aside for local residents.

The program would be trialed on the Horseshoe Bay to Langdale route and the Powell River to Comox route.

[clapping] Oh, awesome.

Wow, so this is an awesome day, you guys.

The fuel-thirsty Pacific Cat vessels never worked as designed.

In the late '90s, they briefly ran between Horseshoe Bay and Departure Bay, but there were complaints about the wake, mechanical difficulties, passenger facilities, choppy ride, and the fact they barely reduced the crossing time of a conventional ferry.

The failed experiment cost BC taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars, and the ships were partly responsible for sinking the NDP government of the 1990s.

And they didn't have deep fryers, so you couldn't get french fries on them.