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Amherst to Sidney - INTERTIDAL - FORESHORE

a mainly shoreline paddle of about 6.5 nm

When Sunday, May 26, 2024 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Amherst
Directions
Full Free
Destination Sidney
Trip style Day
Experience Level 1
Distance 0 nm
Route plan A

We will meet at Amherst Beach at 09:30 and help each other with launching the kayaks. Before setting out, we will go over the plan, any safety concerns and make introductions. The paddle will take us from Amherst over to Coal Island where we will explore the coastline, returning via Fernie and Goudge islands. Expected time of return is 15:00

Route plan B

Should conditions be unfavourable, we will paddle over to Tsehum Harbour via Armstrong Point and noodle around the shoreline of the area.

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.

Amherst 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 11:01 AM · siska.ca/activities/1465

Amherst to Sidney - INTERTIDAL - FORESHORE

Sunday, May 26, 2024 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Cancelled

Launch
Amherst10181 Wildflower Pl
Destination
Sidney
Leader
Paul Flynne

Route plan A

We will meet at Amherst Beach at 09:30 and help each other with launching the kayaks. Before setting out, we will go over the plan, any safety concerns and make introductions. The paddle will take us from Amherst over to Coal Island where we will explore the coastline, returning via Fernie and Goudge islands. Expected time of return is 15:00

Route plan B

Should conditions be unfavourable, we will paddle over to Tsehum Harbour via Armstrong Point and noodle around the shoreline of the area.