Paddle the Salish SeaTidewater Sea Kayak SchoolA guidebook for sea kayakers in BC
Paddle the Salish Sea: 30 day trips from Victoria
by Tidewater Sea Kayak School, Victoria, BC
Choose your next day on the water and know you're ready for it. Each of the 30 routes from Victoria shows where to launch, what the tide does there and the skills you need to paddle it. Paperback, $34, shipped across Canada.
It sits on my kitchen table from May to September. Every weekend paddle starts with it.
Marta K., paddles out of Cadboro Bay
From a Victoria paddler
I'd paddled the same stretch of shore for two summers. The book showed me which day trips matched my skills, and I timed my first crossing by its tide notes. I was back on the beach before the afternoon wind came up.
Inside the guidebook
Know the route, the tide and the skills before you launch
Written for new paddlers planning a first day trip, and for anyone after a new route from Victoria.
Choose a trip that matches your skills
Each route names the skills it needs, so you can see which trips you're ready for now and which to work toward.
Time your trip with the tide
Tide notes for every route show how the water moves there, so you pick the hour to set out.
Find the launch spot the first time
Each trip shows where to put in, so your morning starts on the water, not walking the shore.
See the whole day on one map
A map for every route, so you know the shape of the trip before you leave the beach.
Paddle somewhere new each weekend
Thirty trips from one city, so you can paddle a different stretch of the Salish Sea each time you head out.
Build up to the longer routes
Start with what you can paddle today, then see which skill takes you on to the next route.
Who wrote it
Hi, I'm your sea kayak instructor
I teach sea kayaking at Tidewater in Victoria, on the water from May to September. Every course follows Paddle Canada skills and is taught by certified sea kayak instructors, so the strokes, edging and rescues you learn with us are the ones these routes need.
We wrote this guidebook for the day after a course, when you load your own boat and choose where to go. Each trip carries the notes we'd give a student before a day out. New to the water? Start with the shorter routes and build up from there.
Paperback, $34, shipped across Canada
All 30 day trips, in one paperback
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