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Cadboro Bay to Chatham/Discovery Islands

When Saturday, August 8, 2020 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Cadboro Bay
3 of 24 open Free
Destination Chatham/Discovery Islands
Trip style Day
Experience Level 1
Distance 9.3 nm
Route plan A

We will leave the Beach at Gyro Park and make our way out to Cadboro Point. If conditions are suitable, we will cross Baynes Channel over to the Chatham/Discovery group and likely make a clockwise circumnavigation of the group or head through the middle of the Chatham islands. The plan would be to stop for lunch in Rudlin Bay (part of the Provincial Park. Returning via Jemmy Jones Islet.

Route plan B

Plan B could be a shoreline paddle from Gyro beach south towards Oak Bay or north towards Gordon Head. Alternatively, we might launch at Telegraph cove .

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.

Cadboro Bay 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.

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Cadboro Bay to Chatham/Discovery Islands

Saturday, August 8, 2020 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Cadboro Bay2600 Sinclair Rd, Victoria
Destination
Chatham/Discovery Islands
Distance
9.3 nm
Leader
Michael Jackson

Route plan A

We will leave the Beach at Gyro Park and make our way out to Cadboro Point. If conditions are suitable, we will cross Baynes Channel over to the Chatham/Discovery group and likely make a clockwise circumnavigation of the group or head through the middle of the Chatham islands. The plan would be to stop for lunch in Rudlin Bay (part of the Provincial Park. Returning via Jemmy Jones Islet.

Route plan B

Plan B could be a shoreline paddle from Gyro beach south towards Oak Bay or north towards Gordon Head. Alternatively, we might launch at Telegraph cove .