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Oak Bay Marina to Ten Mile Point

When Sunday, February 13, 2022 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Oak Bay Marina
Directions
1 of 12 open Free
Destination Ten Mile Point
Trip style Day
Experience Basic
Distance 6.5 nm
Route plan A

We'll launch from the beach that is just north of Oak Bay Marina, beside beach Drive. Parking on Beach Drive. Our trip will take a relaxed pace, following the shoreline north, past Willows beach and some fine Oak Bay estates. There are many small islands to explore along the way. Across the mouth of Cadboro Bay, then noodling the shoreline and ending up at Smugglers Cove for our lunch stop. Smugglers Cove does not have toilets, but there are some secluded bushes at one end. We'll decide at lunch if the trip will be extended to Ten Mile point (which would add about 1nm to the distance). Our return trip will be roughly the same, but with a visit to Mary Todd Island. The currents are very minimal for the entire duration of this trip.

Route plan B

The conditions for a Relaxed paddle are maximum 7 knots of wind and calm to rippled seas. If the winds or seas are predicted to exceed these conditions an attempt will be made to find a safer place to paddle.

Safety reminders

Always dress for the possibility of immersion and please bring a drybag containing a spare change of clothes. The drybag goes in your kayak with you, not in your car at the launch site. Please bring a lunch or snacks and sufficient beverage to keep you hydrated, as well as a thermos of something warm. Your paddle leader will introduce the plan and make sure everyone is comfortable with the requirements. Please stay off the water until the group is ready. If you have a VHF radio please bring it with you.

Oak Bay Marina tide/current reference

Sources & licences

Tide & current predictions

CHS provides tide heights and current predictions. Secondary current stations are estimates; large-tide estimates are identified separately. Tide turns and slack water are independent. Conditions along the route vary with location.

CHS atlas & lookup licences

Canadian Atlas of Tidal Currents, Volume 3: Juan de Fuca Strait to Strait of Georgia (2016), Canadian Hydrographic Service, Fisheries and Oceans Canada. © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2022.

Map images are reproduced from the CHS publication and selected for the date and time shown. The publication permits noncommercial reproduction in any format; commercial reproduction requires prior written permission from CHS. This viewer is not an official CHS publication and is not to be used for navigation.

Current Atlas Lookup Tables: Juan de Fuca Strait to Strait of Georgia by Emanuel Borsboom. SISKA adapts the tables to show selected hours and atlas page numbers. The original tables and these adapted tables are provided under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CA).

Dewey atlas attribution

Salish Sea Tidal Current Atlas and calendar lookup tables by Richard K. Dewey, self-published. The selected volume and map number are shown in the viewer. SISKA displays extracted map images and selects them using the author's lookup tables.

For recreational reference only. Not for navigation. These products are not endorsed by CHS or NOAA and are not official Canadian or US government publications. Use current official charts and publications for navigation.

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Oak Bay Marina to Ten Mile Point

Sunday, February 13, 2022 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Oak Bay MarinaOak Bay Marina
Destination
Ten Mile Point
Distance
6.5 nm
Leader
Mike Teachman

Route plan A

We'll launch from the beach that is just north of Oak Bay Marina, beside beach Drive. Parking on Beach Drive. Our trip will take a relaxed pace, following the shoreline north, past Willows beach and some fine Oak Bay estates. There are many small islands to explore along the way. Across the mouth of Cadboro Bay, then noodling the shoreline and ending up at Smugglers Cove for our lunch stop. Smugglers Cove does not have toilets, but there are some secluded bushes at one end. We'll decide at lunch if the trip will be extended to Ten Mile point (which would add about 1nm to the distance). Our return trip will be roughly the same, but with a visit to Mary Todd Island. The currents are very minimal for the entire duration of this trip.

Route plan B

The conditions for a Relaxed paddle are maximum 7 knots of wind and calm to rippled seas. If the winds or seas are predicted to exceed these conditions an attempt will be made to find a safer place to paddle.