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Esquimalt Lagoon to Esquimalt Harbour - TRIP LEADER SICK

Esquimalt Lagoon to Esquimalt harbour

When Sunday, September 22, 2024 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Esquimalt Lagoon
Directions
1 of 10 open Free
Destination Esquimalt Harbour
Trip style Day
Experience Level 1
Distance 0 nm
Route plan A

Launch will be from the North end of the lagoon, lots of parking, but washroom will be at other end. The plan will be to head towards Cole Island, with a stop if folks want, then travel along all the little coves and inlets to Portage park for lunch, then after, head back towards Fisgard Lighthouse and home. We have a low tide of 7.1ft at 10:38AM, so lots of water, and it goes to 8.9ft at 5:47PM, so a light flood all day..

NOTE: The plot is not all the way into Millstream up to the falls, a bit abbreviated. The paddle will be closer to 6nm, maybe a bit less..

Route plan B

no plan 'B' at present, as we can avoid some of the weather in this protected spot. If it does whip up, we can look at the Gorge, launching at the VCKC on Gorge Rd.

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.

Esquimalt Lagoon 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 11:21 AM · siska.ca/activities/1506

Esquimalt Lagoon to Esquimalt Harbour - TRIP LEADER SICK

Sunday, September 22, 2024 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Cancelled

Launch
Esquimalt LagoonCoburg Pennisula
Destination
Esquimalt Harbour
Leader
Rod Stiebel

Route plan A

Launch will be from the North end of the lagoon, lots of parking, but washroom will be at other end. The plan will be to head towards Cole Island, with a stop if folks want, then travel along all the little coves and inlets to Portage park for lunch, then after, head back towards Fisgard Lighthouse and home. We have a low tide of 7.1ft at 10:38AM, so lots of water, and it goes to 8.9ft at 5:47PM, so a light flood all day..

NOTE: The plot is not all the way into Millstream up to the falls, a bit abbreviated. The paddle will be closer to 6nm, maybe a bit less..

Route plan B

no plan 'B' at present, as we can avoid some of the weather in this protected spot. If it does whip up, we can look at the Gorge, launching at the VCKC on Gorge Rd.