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Oak Bay Marina - Parking Lot to Discovery Island - BIRDING - CHAIN ISLETS

When Sunday, April 24, 2022 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Oak Bay Marina - Parking Lot
Directions
2 of 12 open Free
Destination Discovery Island
Trip style Day
Distance 0 nm
Route plan A

We will meet at the parking lot at Oak Bay Marina and launch at the south beach. Depending on the winds, we will paddle out to the Chain Islets then cross over to the gap between Chatham and Discovery Islands. Along the way we will be stopping to ID marine birds and have Liam, our birding 'expert', give descriptions as well as answer any questions. We will have lunch at a beach before returning.

Please be at the beach with your kayak and you ready for 10:00am OTW.If the winds are not

Route plan B

Please check your email before leaving home on the day in case of a change of plans due to winds. I will email the group the night before if the winds are not looking favourable and we MAY be changing plans.

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.

Oak Bay Marina - Parking Lot tide/current reference

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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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Oak Bay Marina - Parking Lot to Discovery Island - BIRDING - CHAIN ISLETS

Sunday, April 24, 2022 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Oak Bay Marina - Parking Lot
Destination
Discovery Island
Leader
Jennie Sutton

Route plan A

We will meet at the parking lot at Oak Bay Marina and launch at the south beach. Depending on the winds, we will paddle out to the Chain Islets then cross over to the gap between Chatham and Discovery Islands. Along the way we will be stopping to ID marine birds and have Liam, our birding 'expert', give descriptions as well as answer any questions. We will have lunch at a beach before returning.

Please be at the beach with your kayak and you ready for 10:00am OTW.If the winds are not

Route plan B

Please check your email before leaving home on the day in case of a change of plans due to winds. I will email the group the night before if the winds are not looking favourable and we MAY be changing plans.