Wheat from the Chaff Blog

Things you learn on a Wednesday evening ferry trip!

You know things aren’t right when…

… you hear your ferry is canceled when you’re already half way there.
… your alternative ferry terminal, Horseshoe Bay, is so windy that you don’t leave your vehicle to go to the bathroom.
… you find out your 5:00 pm ferry is the last one to leave for Vancouver Island.
… the swells are so bad that you don’t feel like eating dinner.
… the Captain says we will be making a hard turn and that we need to sit down, hold on, and brace ourselves – and then concludes gravely, “Here we go!”
… while he is saying this, you’re in a toilet stall with your pants down.
… you quickly pull your pants up [unrelieved] and hold on to the walls of the stall.
… you go to the bathroom quickly, waiting for the big Poseidon wave that… thankfully never hits.
… grown but panicked men are asking the crew, “Is this normal?”
… the passengers clap with gratitude when we hear the Captain’s address at the end of the ferry trip.
… there are hardly any other vehicles on the highway from Nanaimo to Victoria (because only idiots would be driving in a storm).
…. another storm is coming the following night, when we are coming home.

Wonderful.