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Cadboro Bay - TOUR

Light Paddle around Cadboro Bay

When Saturday, September 21, 2024 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Location Cadboro Bay
Directions
12 of 20 open Free
Destination Cadboro Bay
Trip style Day
Experience Basic
Distance 4.5 nm
Route plan A

Have your kayaks on the beach for 12:30pm, and be ready to kayak for 1pm. Need help with your kayak, come ask at the picnic.

We will have a short beach talk and then head out following the shoreline around the bay to Flower Island. Then cross over the bay to Cattle Point. We will then follow the shoreline past Royal Victoria Yacht Club and back to the beach.

Route plan B

If there is wind

Have your kayaks on the beach for 12:30pm, and be ready to kayak for 1pm. Need help with your kayak, come ask at the picnic.

We will have a short beach talk and then head out following the shoreline around the bay, out and back.

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.

Cadboro Bay 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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Cadboro Bay - TOUR

Saturday, September 21, 2024 · 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Launch
Cadboro Bay2600 Sinclair Rd, Victoria
Destination
Cadboro Bay
Distance
4.5 nm
Leader
Jane Jacek

Route plan A

Have your kayaks on the beach for 12:30pm, and be ready to kayak for 1pm. Need help with your kayak, come ask at the picnic.

We will have a short beach talk and then head out following the shoreline around the bay to Flower Island. Then cross over the bay to Cattle Point. We will then follow the shoreline past Royal Victoria Yacht Club and back to the beach.

Route plan B

If there is wind

Have your kayaks on the beach for 12:30pm, and be ready to kayak for 1pm. Need help with your kayak, come ask at the picnic.

We will have a short beach talk and then head out following the shoreline around the bay, out and back.