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[davek]

If I have read the charts correctly, tomorrow (Sunday June 13) is the lowest tide of the year. Max ebb is around 10:30. With the weather so nice, a trip to the beach may be in order. Island View Beach to Cordova Bay is about a 10K hike, and I understand you can keep going all the way around Mt. Doug Beach.

Anyone know other interesting spots for low tide?

[victorian fan]

There will be a lot of rubbish visible in the inner harbour. It doesn't stink as much as it used to.

[Bingo]

If I have read the charts correctly, tomorrow (Sunday June 13) is the lowest tide of the year. Max ebb is around 10:30. With the weather so nice, a trip to the beach may be in order. Island View Beach to Cordova Bay is about a 10K hike, and I understand you can keep going all the way around Mt. Doug Beach.

Anyone know other interesting spots for low tide?

July 12 & 13 will produce similar low tides. The Botannical Beach tidal pools is one place to enjoy a low tide.

[Bernard]

Tillicum bridge is a great place to be for the outflow from Portage Inlet during a big tide. You get a full waterfall under the bridge

[davek]

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are good days for low tides - 9:30, 10:00, and 10:30, respectively.

[Bernard]

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are good days for low tides - 9:30, 10:00, and 10:30, respectively.

AM or PM and where?

[davek]

^ A.M. in Victoria.

[Victoria Watcher]

Sat 15 Jun 06:29 2.0L

Sun 16 Jun 07:14 1.6L 

 

 

 

next weekend has low tides in port renfrew early morning

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 June 2019 - 01:40 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Lowest tides of season coming soon to Port Renfrew.

 

https://www.tide-for...ia/tides/latest

 

 

8:14am on Thursday, July 14th

9:01am on Friday, July 15th

9:47am on Saturday, July 16th

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 June 2022 - 07:29 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

As Victoria’s coastline experiences some of its lowest tides in years, the receding water has exposed a slab of ­granite at Harling Point, the rocky beach beside the Chinese Cemetery in Oak Bay.

 

It’s no ordinary rock, according to Edwin Nissen, University of Victoria professor of ocean and earth sciences. It most likely travelled — via glacier — hundreds of kilometres from the Coast Mountains north of Vancouver between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.

 

Nissen said the technical term is a glacial erratic — basically an ­out-of-place rock — in this case, an igneous rock from the mainland that’s been transported by glacial ­movement.

 

During the Pleistocene era, which ended roughly 12,000 years ago, ­enormous glaciers flowed down from the Coast Mountains, over Vancouver Island and out into the Pacific Ocean.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...ometres-5590054

 

Seismologist Edwin Nissen looks at a 'glacial erratic' at Harling Point in Oak Bay during a rare ultra-low tide. The large piece of granite likely travelled in a glacier from the Coast Mountains about 12,000 years ago. EDWARD NISSEN

 

 

 

The next big low-tide event is expected mid-June 2026.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 July 2022 - 03:41 AM.

[todd]

Isn’t that rock visible during almost any low tide, isn’t the top always visible hence the non-underwater growth on top

Edited by todd, 16 July 2022 - 10:24 AM.

[todd]

Like to use the CRD regional map in the low tide, see what beaches I can get to that are normally blocked by property lines

[UDeMan]

When I was a kid, my dad sent me out at these low tides to find fishing lures that people lost when fishing from the shore. Usually could find a few buzz bombs, etc.

[Victoria Watcher]

Nothing like the allure of found fishing lures.

[aastra]

Yeah, but do you need to be so lurid about it?

[aastra]

This is why so many lurkers don't bother to register. Will you never lurn?

[todd]

Octopuses sometime show up in low tide, seen tentacles pop out of holes in old outfalls/rocks. although I question myself on this still

[aastra]

I can't tell if you're trying to tide me over or turn the tables. Anyway, I don't have time to wait for your reply.

[aastra]

 

...I don't have time to wait for your reply.

 

Because I'm going out now. Period.

[aastra]

I apologize, that was really low. I stink sometimes.