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 100% — 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 · Friday · 28 · 04 · 30 · 202608280430 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Thursday · 27 · 21 · 202608272130 · Thursday August 27, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo Wind southeast 10 to 15 knots diminishing to light near midnight then increasing to southeast 5 to 15 late Friday morning. Wind increasing to northwest 20 to 30 late Friday afternoon then diminishing to northwest 10 to 20 Friday evening. Risk of thunderstorms late this evening. Risk of thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening. Showers overnight and Friday. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday. · issued 44 days ago
At Earls Cove · ECCC Chance of showers · low 14 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 44 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

12:55 departed

5 comparable sailings

60% ran out of room
2had space
3filled

Of the 3 that filled: 3 provably left vehicles behind. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

Arrive before

12:55 0 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 2 · 40%
  • Ran out of room 3 · 60%
  • Left vehicles behind 3 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 12:55 made it no heavy
2026-10-07 12:55 filled up yes heavy
2026-10-06 12:55 made it no heavy
2026-10-05 12:55 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-29 12:55 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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SE 10–15 kt Chance of showers Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Friday · 28 · 04 · 30 · 202608280430 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Thursday · 27 · 21 · 202608272130 · Thursday August 27, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo

Wind SE 10–15 kt
Visibility Risk of thunderstorms late this evening. Risk of thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening. Showers overnight and Friday.

Wind southeast 10 to 15 knots diminishing to light near midnight then increasing to southeast 5 to 15 late Friday morning. Wind increasing to northwest 20 to 30 late Friday afternoon then diminishing to northwest 10 to 20 Friday evening.

Issued 44 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday.

At Earls Cove

Weather Chance of showers
Low 14 °C
Chance of precipitation 40%

Mainly cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers this evening. Risk of a thunderstorm early this evening. Fog patches developing overnight. Wind southeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 14.

Issued 44 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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