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Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf to Tod Inlet

When Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf
Directions
6 of 9 open Free
Destination Tod Inlet
Trip style Day
Experience Basic
Distance 3.2 nm
Route plan A

A short noodling paddle going south from Brentwood Bay ferry dock beach behind Daphne Islet, through Butchart Cove, and down to the end of Tod Inlet and back to the beach at Brentwood Bay ferry dock. Paddle should take between 90 and 120 minutes, round trip. There are washrooms at the launch and (I believe) at the 'Nature Hut Wharf' beach in Tod Inlet. Due to the very short nature of this paddle no stops are planned - bring a snack if you need one and liquids to maintain hydration. The tide is ebbing during the paddle time (2.0M at 10:00am to 1.5M at 12:00pm), and current is rarely a factor paddling in Saanich Inlet. Wind conditions can affect Brentwood Bay but Tod Inlet is quite well protected.

Route plan B

TBD

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.

Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf 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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Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf to Tod Inlet

Thursday, July 11, 2024 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Brentwood Bay Ferry WharfVerdier Avenue, British Columbia
Destination
Tod Inlet
Distance
3.2 nm
Leader
Craig Thomson

Route plan A

A short noodling paddle going south from Brentwood Bay ferry dock beach behind Daphne Islet, through Butchart Cove, and down to the end of Tod Inlet and back to the beach at Brentwood Bay ferry dock. Paddle should take between 90 and 120 minutes, round trip. There are washrooms at the launch and (I believe) at the 'Nature Hut Wharf' beach in Tod Inlet. Due to the very short nature of this paddle no stops are planned - bring a snack if you need one and liquids to maintain hydration. The tide is ebbing during the paddle time (2.0M at 10:00am to 1.5M at 12:00pm), and current is rarely a factor paddling in Saanich Inlet. Wind conditions can affect Brentwood Bay but Tod Inlet is quite well protected.

Route plan B

TBD