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Oak Bay Marina to Gonzales Bay

When Saturday, January 13, 2024 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Oak Bay Marina
Directions
1 of 19 open Free
Destination Gonzales Bay
Trip style Day
Experience Basic
Distance 0 nm
Route plan A

***** This paddle is cancelled due to the extremely cold weather being forecasted ****This is a fun local paddle which allows us to explore the Oak Bay waterfront. We will be launching from the beach just north of the Oak Bay Marina. Park on Beach Drive. There is a set of stairs leading down to the beach. After leaving the beach our route will follow the shore past Victoria Golf Course, observing life above and below the water. Then we'll paddle into McNeil bay. Our lunch stop is at Gonzales Bay. There is a washroom at the top of the stairs at Gonzales Beach. Our return trip will be mostly the same route, except often a less noodly path. Optional coffee/tea/snacks social afterwards at the Oak Bay Marina.

Route plan B

TBA

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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SISKA · Paddle · Relaxed

Printed Nov 9, 2026 11:13 AM · siska.ca/activities/1439

Oak Bay Marina to Gonzales Bay

Saturday, January 13, 2024 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Cancelled

Launch
Oak Bay MarinaOak Bay Marina
Destination
Gonzales Bay
Leader
Mike Teachman

Route plan A

***** This paddle is cancelled due to the extremely cold weather being forecasted ****This is a fun local paddle which allows us to explore the Oak Bay waterfront. We will be launching from the beach just north of the Oak Bay Marina. Park on Beach Drive. There is a set of stairs leading down to the beach. After leaving the beach our route will follow the shore past Victoria Golf Course, observing life above and below the water. Then we'll paddle into McNeil bay. Our lunch stop is at Gonzales Bay. There is a washroom at the top of the stairs at Gonzales Beach. Our return trip will be mostly the same route, except often a less noodly path. Optional coffee/tea/snacks social afterwards at the Oak Bay Marina.

Route plan B

TBA