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Photos - Watching the Needles Ferry dock, then a photo while aboard the ferry. The ferry operates under contract to the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and is free of tolls. It travels back and forth every thirty minutes, from the first departure at 5am until the last departure at 10pm, with a crossing time of about five minutes. The ferry has capacity for 30 vehicles and 144 passengers.
The ferry is diesel powered and pulls using a winding drum on a pair of one inch diameter cables, plastic coated to prevent wear, which are suspended in the lake. The crossing is about 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) in length.

Photos - L-R - Looking north along Lower Arrow Lake from the Ferry along the shore while on our way to Fauquier on the opposite side of the lake from Needles.

Next stop is to Sandon BC. This is Carpenter Creek near Klondike Silver Corporation at the entrance to Historic Sandon BC.

A D8H Caterpillar Bulldozer resting in the yard at Klondike Silver Corporation mining site parking lot. Looking south from the entrance road off Highway 31A. Sandon is located in the Selkirk Mountains, about ten kilometers east of the town of New Denver.

Photos - A look at the Klondike Silver Corp. buildings Klondike Silver Corp. has assembled a quality portfolio of silver and silver-rich poly-metallic properties in historic mineral districts of North America, and is applying advanced exploration technologies to add value to these core assets. The Company holds more than 10,000 hectares of claims and crown grants in the "Silvery Slocan" district, including numerous past-producing mines and a fully permitted and operating 100 tons per day mill near the historic mining town of Sandon, B.C.

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