Tour des Îles (GoByBikeBC-style)

For the past seven years or so, I’ve organized GoByBikeBC Week events each Autumn and late Spring with Island Pathways, a charitable non-profit that has been advancing safer cycling and walking infrastructure on Salt Spring Island for over 35 years.

Each GoByBikeBC Week, a group of Salt Springers ventures out on ebikes to neighbouring islands, often wearing costumes, where we meet wonderful people and explore. Then, I write about our adventures on this blog.

This year, we’ve combined GoByBikeBC Weeks with Aqualink passenger boat service & one of the best fests in the Southern Gulf Islands: Tour des Iles. For the past decade, every Summer Solstice weekend, Tour des Iles passenger boats link all the islands, providing sustainable transportation, local connections, music and art. On other weekends, Aqualink passenger boats provide more limited service.

For 2025, the Salish Sea Inter-Island Transportation Society (or SSIITS) is developing self-guided bicycle tours in partnership with the Southern Gulf Islands Tourism Partnership and GoByBikeBC.