About the terminal
This is the Vancouver Island end of the link across the Strait of Georgia to the upper Sunshine Coast: 17 nautical miles to Powell River (Westview), an hour and twenty-five minutes at sea. That puts it in a different class from the ten-minute island shuttles nearby, and it is the crossing that saves a driver the long way round through Vancouver. Buckley Bay, 25 km south, handles the Denman and Hornby traffic instead, and Powell River itself is 30 km off across the water.