Li Has a conversation with artist Jerry Davidson about his participation in Saltspring Island’s Masterpiece Weekend on the summer solstice 2010.
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Thetis Island Majestic Oceanfront Estate
Thetis Island Majestic Oceanfront Estate
Majestic 28.25 acre oceanfront estate. A rare find.
Drive down the 1/2 km of paved driveway, through your own mature forest, opening to a 4+ acre fabulously landscaped, totally private, oceanfront property.
The main house overlooks Clam Bay. There is a 3 bedroom guest house, a double garage with additional workshop, large fully automated greenhouse, double carport, and even a separate pantry building for the main house.
Thetis Island Majestic Oceanfront
Clam Bay is an Ocean front retreat from the hustle and bustle of urban life, yet only 25 minutes flying time from Vancouver. Located beside the ocean on Pender Island, one of BC’s southern Gulf Islands, Clam Bay is the perfect getaway.
Clam Bay offers eight unique individually decorated homes or cottages and a dock: High Arctic Farm House with full Gourmet Kitchen, Heritage House, The Craft House and Vineyard Suites overlooking our 7 acre vineyard, the ocean front Boat House and Oar House, the ocean view Sod Roof Cottage, and the slightly funky Pump House.
You can contact Clam Bay Island retreat here or inquire about this property here.
Vargas Island | Majestry of the Pacific Northwest
Vargas Island is Salt Spring real estate’s finest offering. The island lies off the west coast of Vancouver Island, about 20 minutes from Tofino, via small boat. A wilderness island retreat awaits your pleasure on totally unspoiled Vargas Island, located in the pristine Tofino area, near Brabant Channel. This Island paradise offers miles of beaches, old growth forest, your own hiking trails, and the majestry of the Pacific Northwest coast surrounding you. It is easy to speak in superlatives with this 65.48 acre beauty (as it is with any luxury real estate property).
Fly in from Salt Spring Island (one can land a small plane on the hard packed sands of these beaches, or arrive by helicopter (lots of potential helipad spaces), or come by boat (approx. 20 minutes out of Tofino). This area is a kayaker’s paradise or a real estate investor’s dream. With vistas all the way to Japan, and back towards Vancouver Island‘s rugged west coast, and sunny exposures (s/sw/w), this parcel is a very rare beauty, indeed. An incredible holding property for the future…pristine land, such as this, is a very rare commodity.
Vargas Island | Majestry of the Pacific Northwest
Vargas Island | History
Named in 1791, Isla de Feran, by Lieutenant Commander Eliza. Name was changed in 1792 to Isla de Vargas by Commanders Galiano and Valdes, after the noted Spanish governor Vargas, who reconquered the province of New Mexico 1693-1694. Captain Vancouver had the name on his chart as Feran Island in 1798. Also named as Feran Island as late as 1844 on Duflot de Mofra’s map.
The name Vargas Island was made final by Captain Richards in 1861, of the H.M. surveying vessel Hecate.
Vargas Island is truly a one of a kind pristine oceanfront real estate investment opportunity. There are 65 acres on Vargas Island, BC. Sweeping bays, sandy beaches, spectacular view building sites, developed walking trails among old-growth forest. This is an extremely rare real estate investment offering. Develop now or hold for future.
Salt Spring Island Real Estate & Limited Supply
Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf Islands are “governed” by the B.C. Provincial Government, under the Islands Trust. The Trust came into being in 1974, with a “preserve & protect” mandate, to keep the Islands as these pristine and park-like environments, for the benefit of all B.C. residents.
Two trustees per Island (not representative of population, then) are elected every three years, in the B.C. civic elections, to manage the Trust bylaws/official community plan, on each Island. These strong zoning/density bylaws control (& effectively “cap”) growth. Limited supply, and a strong buyer demand, usually result in higher prices, regardless of market trend in play at any given time. There will always be a low inventory of properties for sale, then, on any Gulf Island, due to this Islands Trust mandate and resulting cap on growth.
There is no industry on the Gulf Islands.
Salt Spring Island is the largest and best serviced of the Southern Gulf Islands (Gabriola, Thetis, Galiano, Salt Spring, Pender, Mayne, & Saturna Islands are the ferry accessed options, in the Southern Gulf Islands grouping), with a year round lifestyle, and with all the amenities required in the 21st Century.
One doesn’t “have to” leave Salt Spring Island for anything, but it’s easy to go to Vancouver or to Victoria or to mid-Vancouver Island locations, on day trips. There are three separate ferries that service the Island, plus three regularly scheduled (year round) floatplane services, so it’s very simple to do daytrips to major centres, and to return easily to the Island’s charm. In the “season”, there’s also a floatplane service from Seattle to Salt Spring Island.
