Incredible land, sensational views, three titles (160 acres, 80 acres, 160 acres), all adjacent, and all being sold as one unit.

Seasonal creeks, ponds, some cleared, some forested, natural meadow areas, amazing views of ocean, islands, mountains (Lower Mainland mountains, Mt. Baker, Mt. Rainier, Olympic Mountains…an inspirational panoramic vista!),

Several terrific building sites…choose your special one. Access off Anna’s Drive for one parcel, and access off Musgrave Road for another. Park reserve on one boundary line, and an area of very fine homes (all on acreages), on another.

Excellent sun exposures (e/s/w), privacy, quiet — truly unique property anywhere, and it just so happens to be on special Salt Spring Island!

Enjoy the amazingly beautiful, and develop your dream here!
Price: $4,790,000

Sunny, private, treed, with 1000 ft. of wonderful shoreline. Excellent newly built 50 ft. dock, ramp and approachway.

A wired and complete cabin, with stove, is sited within 75 feet of shoreline, creating a footprint for additional ‘dream home’ development. The land is already perc tested and has two wells.

This superb property is a boater’s delight, mainly water accessed now, with foot trails in from a rural road.

Opportunity awaits here!

Price: $1,920,000

Here is a very stylish opportunity for immediate enjoyment. A Wilco Construction home (one of Salt Spring’s top builders; winners of several B.C. awards), and a custom design built ten years ago, this Channel Ridge beauty awaits your subtle updates.

Formal entry/foyer, spacious hallway, large living with dramatic window treatment and vaulted ceiling, sliders out to expansive oceanview deck, to expand summer season living pleasures. Large country kitchen, with dining off, and walk in pantry, plus mudroom/laundry room, with powder room off (easy access to rear garden and patio).

Library/den or office (could be second bedroom, if desired, with generous closet space), and access to solarium. Large sauna off this solarium, too (jplace for a hot tub?). Wonderful master bath, master bed/sitting room, and huge walk-in closet….again, dramatic ocean and island and mountain vistas!

Wood floors, custom window treatments, many thoughtful and unique design ideas, here — a blend of “west coast contemporary” and traditional European flair….it works! Upper level offers spacious library/lounge area, and another “master suite” (bed sitting room, and ensuite bathroom).

Two fenced gardens, double garage, garden storage, greenhouse, private property, ocean views, sunny (s/sw/w exposures), very pleasing area of fine homes….this truly is a best buy opportunity on special Salt Spring Island!

Looking for a lakefront property, with a very appealing home in place, with a wonderful surround of forest, meadow, and easy care landscaping, with terrific all day sun exposure and sunsets, too, plus a peaceful ambiance? Here it is, on the shores of St. Mary Lake, on special Salt Spring Island.

Wonderfully private! The appealing home enjoys a main level plus a garden level that could easily become a separate suite (guest/inlaw? B & B? mortgage helper?). This is a “real house”, not a renovated summer cottage, and offers a very pleasing lifestyle choice.

Excellent tenant in place, who would stay, if desired.

St. Mary Lake offers great fresh water fishing (trout, smallmouth bass), warm summer swimming, and no gas powered boats are allowed on the lake. Electric motors, yes, plus canoes, sailboats, kayaks…..

Don’t miss this gem….and remember, the tide is always in on a lake!

Enjoy!

Price: $898,000

One of the very best oceanfront parcels, and it could be yours! In the prestigious and beautiful Fruitvale area, this parcel enjoys excellent sun exposure (s/sw/w), plus expansive sand & crushed shell beach, plus has a foreshore licence & geothermal capability (build your own dock, here!).

Excellent water supply. Arable land (once part of an historic farm), enjoy the heirloom orchard, the bountiful veggie garden, the easy care landscaping….the home offers an homage to Tuscan charm, and is sited close to the beach.

Lots of options here! Let’s walk this one soon. Easy to show!

Vendors Comments:

Our house and property 533 Long Harbour Rd.

The story of this location starts with the First People who camped here in the summer and enjoyed the plentiful clams and oysters. The evidence of this seasonal habitation is the midden that encompasses this bay. Because of the fresh water that seeps out into the bay, there are almost no starfish to eat these shellfish. Ample food was not the only draw as those early inhabitants knew that the SW wind that blows frequently in the warmer months blows by our bay and often leaves this house and property unruffled and calm.

This was one of the first locations chosen by early settlers also. The older apple trees and the large pear tree were part of the original Fruitvale orchard and their produce was taken by rowboat and barge to off-island locations to be sold. Many of these old varieties are still productive. In subsequent years Bartlett pear trees were planted, and we planted filbert nut trees, walnuts and Asian pear, the grapes and a Gravenstein apple. All of the plantings love the location because, as one of our neighbors once said, ‘if the sun is shining on Salt Spring, it is shining on Fruitvale’.

In general this area is a dry one. We knew we wanted to grow food and wanted to have ample water, so in addition to the drilled well we had we installed a new roof on the house and copper gutters that fed a 27,000 gallon water collection system. The tanks are usually full by the end of December, or at the latest in January, and although we use this system

for all of our irrigation, we have never managed to use all of the stored water. In addition, noting the luxurious growth along the west border of the property, we installed a 21′ dug well that we now use for household water. The water is tasty and has served us

well. We had a full mineral test done on the water and it is perfect, tastes delicious and  is fed from a small aquifer of saturated pure coarse golden sand that sits on the bedrock under about 12′ of glacial till or stoney clay. The well was installed with a protective barrier that prevents surface water from entering the system. The house has the option ofbeing run on rain water with only the kitchen cold water tap delivering dug well water.

There is a dike of sandstone that comes to the surface all across this property and the adjacent properties and it retains the fresh groundwater like a dam so that the fresh water only slowly gets to the high water mark of the sea with the previously mentioned benefit of keeping the starfish from coming too close and devastating the oyster bed.

There is excellent crabbing for Dungeness in the harbour especially in the gap at the east end of goat island, an easy row from the tidal float and ramp.

As the house floors are already plumbed for hot water in floor heat, the conversion from boiler supplied hot water to tidal grid supplied hot water via an exchange system and compressors is the next logical step and the necessary lease is in place allowing the installation of the grid under a dock approach, ramp and float running straight out from the existing dinghy dock

Magical 5.65 sunny, private acreage in Salt Spring Island’s Long Harbour area, with an approximately 600′ expansive designed, fully serviced, alluring cottage and a charming 110′ forest sited studio.

The property features a large spring-fed pond (swimming, irrigation, trout stocked), old-growth cedars, arable pasture land, workshop shed, and septic system sized for addition of up to 3 bed home.

A hidden treasure, very private, nearby bird sanctuary area,yet close to Ganges Village amenities. Lovely “Zen/Scandanavian” sense here – tranquil beauty!

Price:$735,000

Vendors Comments:

Harbourside Place

We fell in love with the beautiful cedars when we first saw this property. They were evidence of a large and supportive aquifer as these trees require water. Thus, the first construction on the property was the large pond. It is spring fed and has been stocked with wild sea run cutthroat trout supplied by Kathy Reimer and her crew from creeks that go dry in the summer. The pond continues to naturalize with every passing year and now looks as though it has always been there.

As all water on this island originates as rain, we decided to go to the source and installed tanks for rainwater collection in the basement of the cottage. The roof of the
cottage is so large that all three tanks will fill up by gravity in a couple of good rains, ensuring that fresh water is always available. In the plumbing for the cottage, provision was made for connections to a drilled or dug well and pipes have been run to a witched site along the driveway and to the back of the property. The rainwater system has served us so well that we have not felt the need to go to the expense of a well. Although our rainwater tested pure in our initial test, we have installed a filtering system and UV treatment on the household water. We have a pump in the pond and use pond water for irrigation and it also can be used to flush both of the cottage toilets during the dryer months. Since our rain in BC is acidic we use about 1.5 lbs of sodium bicarbonate per full tank to raise the pH of the rainwater to about neutral. This also protects the copper pipes and the water is very soft. We maintain the roof and gutters by pressure washing once a year and blowing off debris with an electric leaf blower as required …mostly in the fall. The whole system is well designed, simple and sufficient.

The pond holds about 750,000 imp Gallons of water and is 20′ deep allowing for good oxygenation and the cold bottom temperatures that wild trout thrive in. The cutthroat trout eat whatever is hatching and make spectacular jumps. We do not feed them. There is a spring at each end of the pond and the roof collection overflow is piped to the pond.

There are solenoid controlled pop up sprinklers of various sizes in the lawn areas and a db2 pipe system for wiring from a programmable computer controller. Apple, pear, plum and walnut trees have been planted and fenced individually to protect them from deer as well as a Leylandi cypress hedge for privacy. All are well established and do not require watering.

The septic field is sized for the cottage as well as a three bedroom home, was professionally installed and there are 2″ stub lines in two location on either end of the cottage ready for a main home system.

The main power drop arrives at the shop and comes under the driveway to feed the cottage panel. Shaw has installed telephone and high speed internet to the cottage in the same trench.

A rare entity…a waterfront lot, awaiting your development ideas, on Razor Point Road, at the head of Browning Harbour.

Walk to the conveniences of the Driftwood Mall, if desired, and keep your boat at Port Browning Marina.

Lovely views out Browning Harbour, sunny exposures, warm ocean swimming, and the land has been retained in “natural state”.

Current owners have enjoyed camping out, here, and so the property is ready for a new owner’s ideas.

Bring your architect, and let’s walk this one, soon. Rare, indeed, to enjoy this kind of lowbank oceanfront on serene Pender Island.

Price: $499,500

6+ magical acres, pastoral ambiance, adjacent to huge swath of park reserve (hiking/walking trails galore, here!), and with excellent all day sun exposure and the allure of dramatic sunsets, too.

Zoned for main home, separate guest cottage, and upto 5000 sq. ft. barn, plus multiple agricultural accessory buildings. Property’s arable land would also allow for gardens and one could happily keep some sheep!

In an area of fine homes, this beautiful development opportunity also enjoys privacy and a sense of calm.

The driveway into the property is off the end of Pringle Farm Road, and so the property itself is not visible from the road. On community water.

Bring your architect, and let’s walk this beauty soon.

Price: $899,000

A Mayne Island getaway in a prime location with viewscapes overlooking the ocean and boats plying Active Pass, minutes to village amenities.

Currently set up to enjoy with a 2 bedroom cottage, a self-contained sleeping cabin/studio, large workshop, garage/storage. A level area has also been cleared and serviced for a new residence. Property size is 4 acres.

Create a ‘holding property’ asset, and plan your dream home while relaxing on your cottage deck! Enjoy today, & take advantage of all Mayne has to offer!

Superb oceanview acreage and Home located on 16 acres of wonderful on tranquil Mayne Island.

Custom built “West Coast Style” home, featuring gracious living/dining. privacy, vaulted ceilings, expansive windows, over 3000 sq. ft. of dramatic family and entertaining spaces, including a self-contained suite (inlaw or B&B option?) in lower level.

Zoning allows for house and cottage.

This is a prime property & is a “must see” in your search for your island dream!

Price: $875,000