The Shelter Islets guard the entrance to the cove. Further west you can see the wharf and ferry landing which is the focus of community life on the island. On the eastern end of the island facing Bowen Island lies Eastbourne . Again a public wharf gives you access to this small settlement. Summer cottages built in the twenties and thirties are slowly giving way to modern homes for year round residents.
Rudimentary roads wind through the community and connect to the ferry landing across the island.
To the south the Pasley Islands appear, clustered together between Keats and Bowen Islands . Bound by Barfleur Passage to the north and Collingwood Channel to the east, this group consists of five islands and a number of small islets. Pasley Island itself is by far the largest of these. Well, having just talked of easy access, the average new age entrepreneur having less and less time and wanting that weekend getaway, it seems to me, the place to be may well be in Howe Sound. Not just at popular Bowen Island but rather on Keats and Gambier Islands.