Beachfront & Tuscan charm on Salt Spring Island

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beachfront

beachfront

Waterfront living on Salt Spring Island.

Walk-on beach with sheltered cove, boat-launching ramp, beachside float-plane / boat-house with power and water, and swimming float. The property features a panoramic viewscape, stunning sunsets, privacy, access to shell-fishing, trails, ponds & creek. Notably, it is fully fenced, with a cosy courtyard, heated swimming pool, 1200 sq. ft. workshop, and separate studio. Zoning allows for a cottage. Well sited along a stately driveway, the custom-built, 4 bed home (1991 addition designed by H. Schubart) features a level entry, lavish master bedroom suite on main floor and lower-level guest accommodation… for $2,200,000

Fields of Gold?

tuscan

… and then there is… this Tuscan Oceanfront which is simply
One of the very best oceanfront parcels, and it could be yours! In the prestigious and beautiful Fruitvale area, this parcel enjoys excellent sun exposure (s/sw/w), plus expansive sand & crushed shell beach, plus has a foreshore licence & geothermal capability (build your own dock, here!).

Excellent water supply. Arable land (once part of an historic farm), enjoy the heirloom orchard, the bountiful veggie garden, the easy care landscaping….the home offers an homage to Tuscan charm, and is sited close to the beach.

Salt Spring Island Restaurants, Inns & Coffee

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Salt Spring Island Restaurants

House Piccolo: a stellar dining experience, for dinner, located in Ganges Village. Locals and visitors alike call this “Salt Spring’s best
restaurant”. Certainly a place for celebrations! Open for dinner.

Calvin’s Bistro: oceanside deck, for summer al fresco dining pleasures, and Harbour views. Great food, terrific service, menu highlights plus regular menu choices, and enjoyed by locals and visitors alike! Open for lunch and dinner.

Harbour House Hotel open for breakfast and lunch, daily, and for dinner, in the off season, on Friday (live music), Saturday, Sunday. Open for dinner, nightly, in the summer season.

Hastings House a part of the Small Hotels of the World group, and with an award winning kitchen, this has to be on your list for those very special occasions.A view down Ganges Harbour is also a part of the ambiance. Open between April and November, for dinner: this is a not to be missed experience.

Bocados Bistro in Grace Point Square. Totally reconfigured space, formerly the Artist’s Bistro, this gem enjoys al fresco patio dining in the summer season…like traveling to Italy! Open for dinner.

Marketplace Cafe one of the newest dining choices on Salt Spring, and open for lunch and dinner, the Marketplace is located in Harbour Centre (formerly Gasoline Alley). Lots of specials, and also regular menu choices. A great addition to the dining scene! Open for lunch and dinner.

Market Place Cafe

Market Place Café

Treehouse Cafe recently “enclosed“, this well known summer location is now “year round”. Yes, live music is still on the menu, too! Breakfast and lunch, in the “off season”, and dinner, too, in the summer season.

Salt Spring Inn in the heart of Ganges Village, and with accomodation above the restaurant. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, daily.

Raven Street Market Cafe close to the Fernwood Dock, and with great soups and woodfired pizza. Take out or eat in. Your “north end” choice!

Golden Island Restaurant: eat in or take out…great Chinese cuisine choices! A local’s favourite!

Seaside Kitchen across from Vesuvius ferry parking lot, with an oceanside deck for summer al fresco dining pleasures…open for lunch and
for dinner. Best fish and chips, according to the Islanders!

Rock Salt Cafe at Fulford Village, adjacent to ferry terminal parking lot. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner…an award winning kitchen!

Rendezvous Cafe across from Moby’s and from Salt Spring Marina. An authentic French bakery…coffee and pastry delights: take out or eat in. Quiche, tomato tarts, savoury cheese items, plus delectable pastries. Make sure your next birthday cake comes from here. Christmas Yule Logs, too!

Cafe Talia on Hereford Street…best cappucino in town! Lots of
treats…open from 9 to 4, Monday to Saturday. Closed Sunday.

TJ Beans coffee house with the best viewing deck on the Island! Corner of McPhillips Avenue and Lower Ganges Roads.

Salt Spring Coffee

Salt Spring Coffee

Salt Spring Roasting Company home made delights, soups, coffees, teas. On McPhillips Avenue.

Jana’s Bakeshop: on Lower Ganges Road, at Upper Village. Coffee, teas, goodies.

Embe Bakery: coffee, teas, home made delights…the pies!

Dagwood’s: on Lower Ganges Road, in Upper Village. A Salt Spring
tradition: breakfast and lunch.

The Turqoise Door (and hibachi) | Salt Spring Island

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This used to be a very typical “Island retreat”…a cabin in the forest, a short stroll to a beach, a kind of “woodbutcher’s art” thrown together dwelling…people would camp out on weekends, and in summer holidays. In fact, such structures are really a kind of “hard tent”.

turquoise door

turquoise door

It’s rare now, though, to discover this kind of older retreat dwelling, especially on the more discovered islands. On water access only opportunities, it’s still possible to find thrown together structures, with recovered lumber, “found” windows, left-over elements from a larger construction project perhaps….

I always enjoy discovering a “time tunnel”, a feature from the past. This little sweetheart actually sits on a very private half acre lot, about 3 minutes to the ocean, and if one limbed out some deciduous trees, it would be possible to reclaim the ocean glimpses that once were enjoyed from this deck.

Of course, code requirements and paper trails have caught up this this sweetie “hard tent”, and one would buy this lot with a view to developing, and it would be treated as simply “raw land” now.

Pug with hibachi

pug with hibachi

I can envision the hibachi on the deck, a hammock strung between trees, some stacked underbrush firewood for the nonconfoming woodstove inside, some camp beds in the one room, and the outhouse just up the trail. This is an “off the grid” enviornment, and there is something very appealing about that turquoise door.

Ah…for the good old hippie dippie days…..