Cash is NOT accepted on the ferry. You must have a Debit/Credit card or a Prepaid Punch Card. Fares are Round Trip, paid going to the Island, with a surcharge for Debit/Credit cards.
Punch Card sales are posted on the Community Calendar You can also purchase Punch Cards Online.
The ferry leaves Promptly, do not expect them to raise the gate for you. Emergency Medical Services have priority and may disrupt the schedule at any time. The Captain may, at his discretion, make additional trips if time allows to clear a dock. Do not depend on it – Leave Early for appointments!
- Lummi Island Dock Office: Monthly Punch Card sales, Bathrooms, the LICA Community Bulletin Board, and a Little Free Library sponsored by FOIL
- Gooseberry Point: There is a Porta-Potty at the dock. Lummi Bay Market @ Fisherman’s Cove across the street has Gas / Non-leaded / Diesel & a real bathroom.
Ferry Schedule
Ferry Rates
Seasonal Tide Restrictions
Each year May through September there are very low tides at specific days and times. No trucks over 40,000 GVW are permitted on the Lummi Island Ferry at any tide under zero1. Our Ferry Docks and the underwater clearance for the Ferry are designed around this zero level. If below zero and there is Excess weight on the Ferry it causes clearance issues.
Restricted Days
The link above lists monthly dates and times with weight restrictions from the Whatcom County Ferry Division.
1 The zero tide level on a tide table is the baseline level assigned the height of zero from which all other tide levels are measured. The zero tide level for a given area is calculated by averaging the height of all of the lowest tides for that area over a certain period of time called an epoch, which is a 19-year tidal cycle used to calculate datums. The present National Tidal Datum Epoch (NTDE) is 1983 through 2001. Since this is an average, a tide can be “below zero”.