Fulford Harbour.
South Island's Pastoral Heart.

Fulford Harbour is Salt Spring Island's south ferry terminal — a pastoral harbour community anchored by the heritage Fulford Inn, St. Paul's Church and the farms that have operated continuously in south Salt Spring since the late 19th century. Fulford differs fundamentally from Ganges in character: where Ganges is the island's commercial and tourist hub, Fulford is quiet, pastoral and primarily residential — the end of the road for the BC Ferries Swartz Bay run, with a small store, a pub and the genuine country quiet of south island.

Ruckle Provincial Park occupies the entire southeast peninsula of Salt Spring Island — and contains BC's oldest farm in continuous operation, the Ruckle Family Farm, which has been farmed since 1872 and was donated to the province by the Ruckle family in 1974. The park is BC's most historically significant agricultural heritage site in the Gulf Islands. Properties adjacent to Ruckle Park on Beaver Point Road benefit from the park's permanent natural and agricultural buffer — no development will ever occur on the park's perimeter, ensuring a permanently rural horizon.

Beaver Point Road is south Salt Spring Island's primary rural road — a lightly travelled route through farm properties, forested acreages and past Ruckle Provincial Park to the park entrance at BC's oldest farm. Properties on and adjacent to Beaver Point Road include some of the island's finest farm estates: cleared agricultural land with original farm infrastructure, forested acreages with ocean views through the trees, and the extraordinary rural quiet of an island road that sees minimal traffic. These are Salt Spring properties that change hands infrequently and are often held for generations.

Musgrave Landing is at the end of Musgrave Road on Salt Spring Island's remote southwest peninsula — a community accessible only by a long, winding forest road from Fulford Harbour, with no through-road connection to the rest of the island. Properties in the Musgrave area are among Salt Spring's most remote: a small cluster of waterfront and near-waterfront acreages on Satellite Channel, with basic road access and the extraordinary quiet of an island dead-end community. The Gulf Islands' marine environment is immediately accessible; the boat is often the practical means of connection for Musgrave residents during the summer season.

South Salt Spring Island carries the island's most pronounced agricultural heritage — the Ruckle Farm, the St. Paul's Catholic Church community (established in the 1880s to serve the island's Hawaiian and First Nations agricultural workers), and the farms that have continuously operated in the Fulford valley since the late 19th century. The community is small, quiet and deeply rooted: south island residents tend to have longer tenure on the island than their Ganges counterparts. The Fulford Harbour area hosts the island's local farmers market and the community pub that serves as south island's informal gathering place.