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Cooper Cove to Sooke Harbour - TOUR

A shoreline tour of the east end of Sooke Basin.

When Saturday, August 23, 2025 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Cooper Cove
Directions
Full Free
Destination Sooke Harbour
Trip style Day
Experience Level 1
Distance 6.5 nm
Route plan A

We will launch while the tide is quite low at Cooper Cove and follow the shoreline clockwise around Hutchinson Cove and continue under the bridge into Roche Cove where we will stop for lunch and a break. After lunch we'll retrace the the route until we are opposite Lorimer Pt where we will make the .3 nm crossing to continue the route to our launch site. If you have a VHF radio (and know how to use it) please bring it along. This paddle is suitable for those wanting a sheltered route with a little more distance than a Light Paddle. Please bring suitable lunch or snacks and liquids and dress for possible immersion. Debriefing for those interested will follow at Stickleback Oceanfront Cider & Taphouse at Cooper Cove (they have non-alcoholic options and a kitchen). Approaching Cooper Cove in the morning, drivers are advised to continue past the cove and the Chevron gas station and make a left turn onto Laidlaw Rd to make their turn around.

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.

Cooper Cove 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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Cooper Cove to Sooke Harbour - TOUR

Saturday, August 23, 2025 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Cooper CoveCooper's Cove Kayak Launch
Destination
Sooke Harbour
Distance
6.5 nm
Leader
Norman Noel

Route plan A

We will launch while the tide is quite low at Cooper Cove and follow the shoreline clockwise around Hutchinson Cove and continue under the bridge into Roche Cove where we will stop for lunch and a break. After lunch we'll retrace the the route until we are opposite Lorimer Pt where we will make the .3 nm crossing to continue the route to our launch site. If you have a VHF radio (and know how to use it) please bring it along. This paddle is suitable for those wanting a sheltered route with a little more distance than a Light Paddle. Please bring suitable lunch or snacks and liquids and dress for possible immersion. Debriefing for those interested will follow at Stickleback Oceanfront Cider & Taphouse at Cooper Cove (they have non-alcoholic options and a kitchen). Approaching Cooper Cove in the morning, drivers are advised to continue past the cove and the Chevron gas station and make a left turn onto Laidlaw Rd to make their turn around.

Route plan B

TBA