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Agate Lane to Margaret Bay

When Saturday, November 28, 2026 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Agate Lane
Directions
9 of 12 open Free
Destination Margaret Bay
Trip style Day
Experience Basic
Route plan A

We will be launching at Agate Lane beach and following the shore along Cordova Bay to Margaret Bay where we will stop for a break. Following the break we will retrace the shoreline back to Agate Lane Beach.

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.

Agate Lane 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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Printed Nov 8, 2026 9:22 AM · siska.ca/activities/1678

Agate Lane to Margaret Bay

Saturday, November 28, 2026 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Agate LaneAgate Lane, Saanich
Destination
Margaret Bay
Leader
Joanne Nicolson

Tides & currents Saturday, November 28

Trip 09:30–15:30 Flood Ebb Times MST

Tide Finnerty Cove
06 09 12 15 18
10:21 High 3.19 m
16:30 Low 2.81 m
17:30 High 2.81 m
Current Race Passage Flood 050°T · Ebb 230°T
±7 kts 06 09 12 15 18
08:44 Slack → ebb
12:03 Max ebb 4.7 kts
17:00 Weak & variable 0.0 kts
Current Sidney Channel Flood 330°T · Ebb 150°T
±2.5 kts 06 09 12 15 18
06:05 Max flood 2.3 kts
10:14 Slack → ebb
12:43 Max ebb 1.4 kts
17:40 Weak & variable 0.0 kts

Estimated from Race Passage

CHS predictions (tides.gc.ca) for Agate Lane's stations. Bold times fall within the trip. Not for navigation.

Route plan A

We will be launching at Agate Lane beach and following the shore along Cordova Bay to Margaret Bay where we will stop for a break. Following the break we will retrace the shoreline back to Agate Lane Beach.

Route plan B

TBA