The updates on the MV Osprey have apparently been completed but parking lot staff are telling us that the Osprey will wait until the lake rises before going back in service.
Even though tractor trailers and other traffic are being discouraged from taking the snow-free ferry route - backups at Kootenay Bay can reach more than two loads for the 28-car MV Balfour. RV traffic comes with the spring!
This is a very late spring and it is quite possible that the lake will not start to rise until after May 1st or even later.
Perhaps the MOT is doing this to demonstrate that keeping the terminal at Balfour will not be possible?
Tom Lymbery,
Gray Creek