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Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf to Spectacle Falls via Bamberton - RAFT UP

When Saturday, April 5, 2025 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf
Directions
2 of 12 open Free
Destination Spectacle Falls via Bamberton
Trip style Day
Distance 7.9 nm
Route plan A

We will meet at the beach below the Ferry Wharf park on Vedder Ave in Brentwood Bay. After paddling across Brentwood Bay towards Wills Pt, we will cross Saanich Inlet to Sheppard Pt and noodle the coastline, past Barberton, south to Spectacle Falls. We will then cross the Inlet to McKenzie Bight. Depending on our time, we will lunch at either Spectacle Falls or McKenzie Bight. Afterward, we'll continue north along the eastern shore of the Inlet, around Willis Point and back to our launch site.

In addition to enjoying nature's handiwork in this beautiful area, we will see the 'stairs to nowhere' near Spectacle Falls, and waterfront homes along the Willis Point shore. Seabirds and intertidal life are usually seen, especially at lower tides, and sometimes seals and otters may appear.

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.

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 Spectacle Falls via Bamberton - RAFT UP

Saturday, April 5, 2025 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Brentwood Bay Ferry WharfVerdier Avenue, British Columbia
Destination
Spectacle Falls via Bamberton
Distance
7.9 nm
Leader
Johanna De Leeuw

Route plan A

We will meet at the beach below the Ferry Wharf park on Vedder Ave in Brentwood Bay. After paddling across Brentwood Bay towards Wills Pt, we will cross Saanich Inlet to Sheppard Pt and noodle the coastline, past Barberton, south to Spectacle Falls. We will then cross the Inlet to McKenzie Bight. Depending on our time, we will lunch at either Spectacle Falls or McKenzie Bight. Afterward, we'll continue north along the eastern shore of the Inlet, around Willis Point and back to our launch site.

In addition to enjoying nature's handiwork in this beautiful area, we will see the 'stairs to nowhere' near Spectacle Falls, and waterfront homes along the Willis Point shore. Seabirds and intertidal life are usually seen, especially at lower tides, and sometimes seals and otters may appear.

Route plan B

TBA