The Union Steamship was the best way to get there. We would get the Friday night boat that would stop at Gower Point, Roberts Creek, Davis Bay, Selma Park, Sechelt, Halfmoon and then Buccaneer Bay which was the last stop. It took about 5 hours and you would have dinner, read the paper and visit with friends.  For a while, during the war, they took the Friday night boat off the run and you had to take the Saturday 2 p.m. Union boat from the foot of Carroll Street and arrive at Buccaneer Bay about dinner time to return Sunday night.  A short weekend!

 

The Union Steamship Company stopped running and the Gulf Line went to the Bay. At one time, for a period of two to three weeks, they stopped out in the pass and wouldn't come into the float. The residents would row out to the pass in their row boats and peo­ple would jump off the Gulf boat into small boats. Fortunately, it was calm when they did this and it didn't last long. After they stopped that, they let people off at Halfmoon Bay and you would be transported over to Buccaneer in a landing barge and dropped off at the beach. On Sunday, the Gulf line would go to Vaucroft and pie up the passengers. There would be a long line of row boats going out of the Bay to the dock, often towed by those few who had a power boat.

 

The next method of transportation to the Bay was the Jarvis Express that left from the foot of Cardero Street where you could leave your car over the weekend. The Buccaneer Bay people were the only ones on the boat, up Friday and down Sunday.