FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Weekday · peak summer

8 sailings

Every departure, what it usually does, and the hour you would have had to arrive.

Easiest sailings before 10:35, after 15:40
Hardest stretch 10:35–12:55
06:30 room most days 80% — 5 08:20 room most days 100% — 5 10:35 expect to wait 20% 09:16 5 12:55 expect to wait 40% 12:55 5 15:40 toss-up 60% — 5 18:00 room most days 80% 17:01 5 20:05 room most days 80% — 5 22:00 room most days 80% — 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ *no exact match, so the search was widened — open a sailing to see how Weekday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Tuesday · 25 · 04 · 30 · 202608250430 · Tuesday August 25, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Monday · 24 · 21 · 202608242130 · Monday August 24, 2026 at 21:30 PDT Wind northwest 15 knots diminishing to light late Tuesday morning then increasing to southeast 10 to 15 late Tuesday afternoon except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 15 to 20 Tuesday evening. Showers Tuesday evening. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Tuesday. · issued 47 days ago
At Earls Cove · ECCC Clear · low 13 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 47 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

06:30 departed

5 comparable sailings

20% ran out of room
4had space
1filled

Of the 1 that filled: 1 provably left vehicles behind. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 4 · 80%
  • Ran out of room 1 · 20%
  • Left vehicles behind 1 camera · line
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

From terminal camera frames, which count vehicles waiting outside the terminal.

Not enough exact matches, so the search was widened to all seasons.

109 sailing(s) had no usable record and are excluded.

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-08 06:30 made it no empty
2026-10-07 06:30 made it no empty
2026-10-06 06:30 made it no empty
2026-10-05 06:30 made it no empty
2026-09-29 06:30 filled up yes heavy

The outcome is about the vessel — whether it ran out of room, which the board can see and no camera can. “Left behind” is about the approach road, which only a camera residual or somebody in the line can see; “no one has said” means neither did, which is not the same as no. Peak is how full the compound got; older sailings show a vehicle count, and a “+” there means the queue ran past the edge of the camera frame.

When did the queue build?

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NW 15 kt Clear Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Tuesday · 25 · 04 · 30 · 202608250430 · Tuesday August 25, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Monday · 24 · 21 · 202608242130 · Monday August 24, 2026 at 21:30 PDT

Wind NW 15 kt
Visibility Showers Tuesday evening.

Wind northwest 15 knots diminishing to light late Tuesday morning then increasing to southeast 10 to 15 late Tuesday afternoon except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 15 to 20 Tuesday evening.

Issued 47 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Tuesday.

At Earls Cove

Weather Clear
Low 13 °C

Clear. Fog patches developing after midnight. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light late this evening. Low 13.

Issued 47 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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