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Looking for a spectacular retreat home, on exceptional Salt Spring Island? Here's a superb opportunity! A renovated cottage home, with a year round dock, plus mooring buoy for overflow guest boats! Main level offers entry/foyer, open plan living and dining, cook's kitchen, all with those allurin...
01/31/2011
Looking for an oceanfront, with privacy, premier sun exposure, walk-on sandy beach, plus foreshore licence (build your dock and keep your boat at home), with an eclectic blend of "west coast" charm and Tuscan flair? Here it is! Opportunity for geothermal energy! Arable land: fenced veggie garden...
01/31/2011
Looking for an arable acreage, where one can farm or keep horses or sheep or plant an orchard or....you decide! In the heart of the beautiful Fulford Valley, and on the doorstep of Burgoyne Bay park, this timber peg home is a perfect retreat or retirement home! With ten plus acres, approximately...
01/29/2011
This is the oceanfront home of Robert Bateman, Canada's renowned wildlife painter and environmentalist.   The property is located in Reginald Hill, on Salt Spring, and this neigbhourhood was designed by H. Schubart, an architect who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, and who moved to Salt Spring, ...
01/29/2011
Am truly enjoying my radio shows on Salt Spring's community radio station (www.cfsi-fm.com). Every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 7 to 9 a.m., Pacific Time, I do the "All Things Salt Spring...and More" show: music, musings, and interviews with Islanders. I could talk about real estate, but choose n...
01/29/2011
Townhomes are a limited option on Salt Spring Island....this one is a sweetheart, close to both seaside and "upper" villages, and to golf, to indoor pool, to all services/amenities.    It's private and sunny, too! Recently upgraded by one of Salt Spring's best builders, the kitchen and bathrooms...
01/29/2011
Summer cottages...lots of different styles!    It's an idyll based on a retreat...someplace to kcik back, be barefoot, there's usually water in this scenario somewhere...ocean, or lake, or river or pond...it's about calm in the midst of our flurried lives.    This first one is right across a qui...
01/28/2011
We have such great bookstores on Salt Spring Island!  Volume 2 is found next to the Coast Guard Dock, where the floatplanes arrive.  Black Sheep Books (formerly Sabine's Bookstore) is at the entrance to Grace Point Square.  Salt Spring Books and Watermark Books are on McPhillips Avenue, across f...
01/27/2011
January 27, 2011. Great to know that Sunset Magazine has named Salt Spring Island as one of the top 10 places to live in the West...Salt Spring is the only Canadian location to be included. Lucky us, to already be a "citizen of the Islands"! Check out Galiano Island's community lending initiative...
01/27/2011
Very sunny acreage, zoned for main home, separate guest cottage, and separate studio! Walk to a lovely beach, where you can keep a boat on a mooring buoy in a protected bay. This mainly level land offers arable potential (be self-sufficient, here!), and privacy.    Gets sunrises and sunsets! In ...
01/26/2011
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