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Cadboro Bay to Willows Beach

Shoreline paddle from Cadboro to Oak bay

When Sunday, October 18, 2020 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Cadboro Bay
5 of 18 open Free
Destination Willows Beach
Trip style Day
Experience Basic
Distance 6 nm
Route plan A

We will paddle the shoreline from Cadboro Bay to Oak Bay and back. The most likely lunch stop will be by at willows Park where there are toilets. There are many small bays and channels to explore! On our way back we may cross Cadboro bay to flower Island. We may paddle around Oak bay Marina and Mary Tod Island before lunch.

Route plan B

If wind direction is not favourable for a paddle from Cadboro bay, we may relocate to 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

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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Cadboro Bay to Willows Beach

Sunday, October 18, 2020 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Cadboro Bay2600 Sinclair Rd, Victoria
Destination
Willows Beach
Distance
6 nm
Leader
Mike Jackson

Route plan A

We will paddle the shoreline from Cadboro Bay to Oak Bay and back. The most likely lunch stop will be by at willows Park where there are toilets. There are many small bays and channels to explore! On our way back we may cross Cadboro bay to flower Island. We may paddle around Oak bay Marina and Mary Tod Island before lunch.

Route plan B

If wind direction is not favourable for a paddle from Cadboro bay, we may relocate to telegraph cove