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video hey we're on a road trip Bruce here with Traveling with Bruce we're in
Kootenay Bay BC and we're gonna take the world's longest free car e fare
hey it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce I'm at Kootenay Bay British
Columbia today we are going to take the world's longest free car ferry ride try
and say that real fast ten times in a row hey it's Bruce here how're you doing
traveling with Bruce today we're on the world's longest free car ferry ride the
world's longest free car ferry ride we're going from Kootenay Bay in British
Columbia over to Balfour takes about 45 minutes and this ferry will hold about
80 or so cars 250 passengers she's just coming in now so you can see sorry for
the shaky video but here she comes approaching the landing here see if I
can get her to focus a little bit for us there it is right behind that pole how
perfect is that as she doesn't turn around she just pulls straight in we
watched the cars come off and then we drive straight on and she reverses the
engines and goes to the other side we drive straight off very reverses engines at
each port and that speeds things up because otherwise you'd have to you'd
have to turn it around and you'd have to watch for other vessels and it's windy
and there's a you know the current is acting up it's it's a problem but here
she is the Osprey 2000 is the name of this ferry no charge here in British Columbia
Canada to come on board this vessel and take a ride over to the other side of
the lake and here's the lake a little view of it here are the mountains today
it's a bit hazy and a bit smoky today we've had forest fires here in British
Columbia all summer long this is September 2017 and here we are focusing
in on some of the mountains nearby you can still see the snow way up at the top
here it lasts year round but today we're not going to get that great of view
because the the haze in the air the smoke in here is just so much that it
really takes the sharpness out of it unfortunately but so that's the way it
goes here it is here's the Osprey 2000
okay we're on the ferry we just boarded at Kootenay Bay and I'm filming behind
us and you can see the mountain ranges over above the treeline there it's
absolutely spectacular I'm gonna tilt the camera a little ways here towards
the north and this is looking up towards Ainsworth the hot springs area and
Kaslo and it's just gorgeous you can see the snow on the top of the mountains
there a lot of these mountaintops have snow on them year-round they they don't
they don't have full meltage up there fantastic views cloudy day sunny day
what a what a beautiful scene this is and you can't beat this free ferry ride
across Kootenay Lake now here we're showing footage I'm showing footage
where we've gone onto the ferry to come back the other direction at the end of
the day we got lucky this time we got the first spot on the ferry we were the
second car on and we were put right in the middle at the front of the ferry I
had an unfettered view of the area that's looking south towards Nelson
British Columbia and you can see this a little bit of snow at the very top there
that's late spring and it's melting away quickly and we're turning around doing
about a 180 and we're going to head back to Kootenay Bay this is Balfour and
there's some cottages as you can see here along the waterfront very pricey
real estate they have their own little boat houses there but you only get to
use your boat out here about maybe seven months of the year or eight if you're
pushing it because it can get cold and shortly you'll see us I'll see I've sped
up this video a little bit the little little time-lapse here we go we're
coming right out of the Belfour area now and heading for the for the open lake
and heading back towards Kootenay Bay you ever get the chance you got to come
up here to British Columbia near Creston and check this area out it's absolutely
gorgeous it's spectacular the views never end
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anywhere the world's longest free it comes this
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coming up welcome to
kootenay Bay this is the world's longest car ferry ride
ferries just pulling in here we are in Kootenay Bay British Columbia
she's just pouring in there come on in there we go
I hope you enjoyed this video I'm closing it out here with a nice long shot of the ferry
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we'll say goodbye from Kootenay Bay British Columbia take care everybody