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Oak Bay Marina to Gonzales Bay

Oak Bay marina to Gonzales Bay.

When Sunday, April 20, 2025 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Oak Bay Marina
Directions
3 of 12 open Free
Destination Gonzales Bay
Trip style Day
Experience Level 1
Distance 6.7 nm
Route plan A

The shoreline from Oak Bay to Gonzales Beach his always interesting! We'll noodle along, exploring the various rocks and islets along the way. If conditions allow, we may take a detour out around scenic Trial Island. There is often some current through Enterprise Channel, so you should be comfortable with a bit of current and have a strong forward stroke. A lunch stop in Gonzales Bay with allow to to refuel for the trip back (washrooms are available on site).

A moderate ebb will predominate during the paddling day, so save some energy for the transit of Enterprise Channel back to Oak Bay Marina after lunch.

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.

Oak Bay Marina 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 9, 2026 10:59 AM · siska.ca/activities/1542

Oak Bay Marina to Gonzales Bay

Sunday, April 20, 2025 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Oak Bay MarinaOak Bay Marina
Destination
Gonzales Bay
Distance
6.7 nm
Leader
Anton Cepeliauskas

Route plan A

The shoreline from Oak Bay to Gonzales Beach his always interesting! We'll noodle along, exploring the various rocks and islets along the way. If conditions allow, we may take a detour out around scenic Trial Island. There is often some current through Enterprise Channel, so you should be comfortable with a bit of current and have a strong forward stroke. A lunch stop in Gonzales Bay with allow to to refuel for the trip back (washrooms are available on site).

A moderate ebb will predominate during the paddling day, so save some energy for the transit of Enterprise Channel back to Oak Bay Marina after lunch.

Route plan B

TBA