'Availability of free & unrestricted use of the toilet remains one of the most basic requirements for good health & public safety' (Greed 2009:45)
When out for the day in a city or town, a public toilet is often the hardest thing to find. Unless you buy a coffee from a cafe or find the nearest mall shopping centre or department store, then work out which level of the centre/store has the toilets, you often can't find a toilet. Which is why I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were toilets on the side of the road as we waited for the ferry at Shelter Bay and Galena Bay in British Columbia. Since we had arrived just after the ferry had taken off, we had almost an hour wait for the next one and the toilets came in quite handy. While the toilets on the Shelter Bay side were snowed in, the Galena Bay toilets were accessible.
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| Galena Bay Public Toilets |
As we drove onto the ferry, I was more than a little surprised to see that the ferry also had toilets! Including a disabled toilet and baby changing area! Free and unrestricted public toilets.
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| Ferry Toilets |
Greed, C. 2009. The Role of the Public Toilet in Civic Life. In Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets & Gender, edited by O. Gershenson,& B. Penner. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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