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Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf to Spectacle Falls

When Sunday, September 12, 2021 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf
Directions
3 of 13 open Free
Destination Spectacle Falls
Trip style Day
Experience Level 1
Distance 0 nm
Route plan A

Leaving Brentwood Bay we will cross over to the west side of the Saanich Inlet to the Bamberton industrial site and Sheppard Pt. We will then noodle the shoreline going south and past McCurdy Point. If you look 'way up' you will see the new Malahat Skywalk above our heads on the height of land at McCurdy Point. We will carry onto Spectacle Falls. After Spectacle Falls, we will cross over to the east shore of the inlet and stop at McKenzie Bight. We will have lunch at this spot. There is a toilet at this location ( part of Gowlland Tod Prov. Park) and it is also a nice place to go for a swim if it is a hot day. After lunch we will head north and along Willis Point back to our launch point in Brentwood Bay.

Route plan B

If winds force a Plan B, we can do a tour through Tod Inlet and also paddle north along the shoreline from Brentwood to Coles Bay ( Coles Bay Regional Park),

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.

Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf 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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Brentwood Bay Ferry Wharf to Spectacle Falls

Sunday, September 12, 2021 · 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM

Launch
Brentwood Bay Ferry WharfVerdier Avenue, British Columbia
Destination
Spectacle Falls
Leader
Dave Chater

Route plan A

Leaving Brentwood Bay we will cross over to the west side of the Saanich Inlet to the Bamberton industrial site and Sheppard Pt. We will then noodle the shoreline going south and past McCurdy Point. If you look 'way up' you will see the new Malahat Skywalk above our heads on the height of land at McCurdy Point. We will carry onto Spectacle Falls. After Spectacle Falls, we will cross over to the east shore of the inlet and stop at McKenzie Bight. We will have lunch at this spot. There is a toilet at this location ( part of Gowlland Tod Prov. Park) and it is also a nice place to go for a swim if it is a hot day. After lunch we will head north and along Willis Point back to our launch point in Brentwood Bay.

Route plan B

If winds force a Plan B, we can do a tour through Tod Inlet and also paddle north along the shoreline from Brentwood to Coles Bay ( Coles Bay Regional Park),