Howe Sound Kayaking Trip

Discover Howe Sound! You really don't have to go far to get out of Vancouver and enjoy some natural settings. A short and inexpensive ferry ride to Bowen Island $5.75 return for foot passengers. You can get your kayaks right beside the ferry dock or at Tunstall Bay on the other side of the island (car needed). The shop at the ferry dock at Snug Cove offers a nice paddle to Halkett Bay Marine Park on Gambier Island and the Tunstall Bay side has access to Keats Island and the Plumpers Cove Provincial campsite.

At Halkett Bay Marine Park you can set camp and explore Gambier Island or paddle up Howe sound to Anvil Island. Gambier is a large island so there is a lot to explore and the paddle to Anvil Island is parallel to the Squamish Highway offering picturesque views of the North Shore Mountains. Keats Island offers a softer camping situation. Plumpers Cove is a nicely groomed campsite and with the town of Gibsons a short 15-20 minute paddle away one could stay for quite some time restocking their provisions. On the island there is an hour hike to the Georgia Straight point where you can sit on the rocks and have a nice view of Bowen Island, the mainland, Vancouver Island and the straight. From Keats Island you can visit the Pasley Island group. This group of islands is like a smaller, local version of the Broken Island group and large numbers of seals sunbathe on the rocks in between these islands. On one of the islands closest to Bowen there is a white shell beach with white rocks rising from it making you feel like you are far away from Vancouver.

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