#bc ferries

There are several issues aboard BC Ferries vessels heading into the busy Easter weekend. The Spirit of Vancouver Island is still out of commission due to a generator problem that happened on Tuesday. It had only returned to service on Sunday after a separate breakdown during spring break. The Queen of Surrey has yet to return from its annual refit. “The past few days have been difficult, and we know this is not the level of service people expect from us, especially heading into a busy travel period like Easter,” Nicholas Jimenez, BC Ferries CEO, said on Thursday.

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There were two kittens sitting next to me crying the entire ferry ride. There was an old man who kept touching my hair and looking at my iPad. There was a kid losing his mind five rows behind me, and on the TV, they were playing a hockey game. There was an entire boys hockey team watching said hockey game.

While I don't think I know anyone here who knows or knew them, any boost might help, especially from Sunshine Coast or Island people. Disappearing from a ferry while leaving car and possessions behind does not bode well. But you never know if someone might have given them a ride off the ferry to help them disappear, for some reason. Until we know more...

Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself. ― Thomas Pynchon V.