Crab Park

Apparently, this waterfront green space east of downtown Vancouver began as Portside Park (fitting given its location), but has been renamed...

Quarry Beach

Tafoni weathering in sandstone There can't be many publicly accessible beaches on Salt Spring that I haven't visited at this point, ...

Yeo Point

Yeo Point itself is not a beach, but a rocky promontory at the north end of Ruckle Park on the southeastern corner of Saltspring Island. But...

St Mary Lake

This relatively small lake on Saltspring Island has neither the waves nor the sediment to form natural beaches and is fringed by reeds every...

Otter Bay

This was our last stop before getting in line for the ferry back to the mainland. We parked off of Niagara Road and M read in the car while ...

Bricky Bay

Bricky Bay is a small cove and pocket beach on North Pender Island that was once home to a brick plant - rows of pile stubs crisscross the s...

Boundary Pass Drive

This was one of many nicely marked public beach access points around Pender - at the end of a short trail between residential properties. Th...

Port Browning

Port Browning is the name of the bay, the community, and the marina (and the pub), although apparently the beach is called Hamilton Beach* (...