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Turnbull Cove.  Turnbull Cove is a large, popular, and beautiful bay, with lots of room and good anchoring in 30 to 50 feet.  Avoid the areas in front of recent slides.  The bottom is probably [...]

Egmont.  Egmont, on the Sechelt Peninsula, is near the entrance to Skookumchuck Narrows and Sechelt Rapids.  Sechelt Inlet lies beyond the rapids.  Backeddy Resort & Marina and Bathgate [...]

Cortes Bay. Cortes Bay is well protected, but in some places, the soft mud bottom doesn’t hold well.   Use Chart 3538 when approaching Several charted rocks and reefs near the entrance have [...]

Elworthy Island Anchorage.  A delightful cozy anchorage lies behind Elworthy Island, a mile north of Church Point, roughly across Waddington Channel from the entrance to Pendrell Sound.  The [...]

Pirates Cove Marine Park.  Pirates Cove is open all year, campsites, pit toilets, hand pump water (boil before use) on the south beach, no other facilities.  It’s a lovely little harbour, [...]

Pacific Gateway Marina located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island is open year-round.  It has gasoline and diesel.  No washrooms, power or water.  Moorage to 70 feet, but most slips are [...]

The Sechelt was a small shelter-deck screw steamer.  She was launched as the Hatti Hansen at Pontiac, Washington in 1893.  her wooden hull was 73 feet in length, 15.2 feet in breadth, with a [...]

Thurston Bay Marine Provincial Par.  Thurston Bay Marine Park is large enough to hold many boats without feeling too crowded.  We’ve had good overnight anchorages in Handfield Bay, and in [...]

The Christmas Art Show is open at Victoria International Marina Gallery.    We have something for everyone with price budgets for all. Artists featured: Mel Williamson Janice Robertson Gail [...]