All you sports car racing fans who haven't got the money or time to drive great distances to the annual automobile bashes at Indianapolis, Sebring, or Le Mans can always join driving sports on the Gulf Islands.
The lack of the roaring crowds and the smell of the grease pits (or is it the smell of the crowds and the roar of the grease pits?) is more than made up for by the chance you have to compete in the race.
Here on the Islands you can match driving skills with the Salt Springers (Leaf and Coil), the Pender Fender Benders and the Mayne Mainlanders. To say nothing of the Galiano Cargoyles, a ladies' group.
See them all demonstrate their unique style, born partly of local conditions and partly of a natural flair for being different.
Politically, the residents of the Gulf Islands are like anywhere else in British Columbia: they swing from left to right. But when it comes to driving, Gulf Islanders are unswervingly center of the road.
With the exception of Salt Spring, which has a white line on its major highway (often used as a single lane by motorcyclists), most of the Islands have one unlined ribbon of pavement and tributaries of gravel, dirt and sheep tracks.
Sheep, incidentally, which run wild on most of the Islands, are accorded the same pedestrian privileges accorded to humans: none. . . |
