Protection Island Real Estate
Just a few soccer fields' distance from the heart of downtown Nanaimo, Protection Island real estate represents an opportunity to live in an extremely rare waterfront property situation. The island is very quiet, the noise of the city dulled everywhere by the thick forest that still stands wherever a house hasn't been built. Yet you can take your skiff, canoe, kayak, yacht, or sailboat right into downtown at any time. The crossing only takes ten or fifteen minutes for a kayak, and five minutes for a power boat. But you don't need a boat. The passenger ferry takes ten minutes and runs hourly.
In the past few years, Protection Island real estate has seemed to catch the eye of a lot of investors. Yet the lifestyle is still dominated by those whose ancestors settled here, and nature-loving retirees, and hipster students with a passion for each morning's crossing by kayak, on their way to Nanaimo's Malaspina University-College.
Protection Island Home
The homes on Protection Island are a hodge-podge of styles, with log homes, cottages, waterfront cabins, luxury homes, character homes, and a few new houses scattered along the island's few (gravel) streets.
There is at least one agent in the Protection Island real estate scene; you can get his map of Protection Island when you get off the ferry.