Ferry ride on Lago Maggiore

 [Early September 2001]

The Lago Maggiore ferry system serves as an important means of transportation for many of the locals, stopping at several of the western lakeside communities but also going as far as Locarno, Switzerland, near the northeastern end of the lake. So of course, one day we just had to hop aboard and go to Switzerland. 

While the lake was calm and the trip uneventful the people watching provided ample and productive opportunities for candid portraiture. 

waiting for the ferry

We stopped at several of the nearby coastal towns at the western end of the lake. Isola Bella: 

Intra:

Isola Madre, which had lovely gardens just right for strolling:

And Verbania: