Guide to Salt Spring's Ocean Beaches
Salt Spring's shoreline is spectacular and offers a wide variety of sandy beaches, rocky shores with tidal pools to explore, shell beaches and boat launches. Following is a map of the beach locations along with a description of what you might find at each beach.

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The shoreline on all beach is public up to the high water mark. If there is private property above the high water mark, please stay off and respect the owners right to privacy. Please take a garbage bag with you and leave the beach in as good or better condition than your found it. Please take all garbage with you when you leave.

1. Arbutus Road - beach access is at the foot of the road and the beach contains tidal pools, and eroded sandstone.
2. Southey Point Road - beach access is at the end of the road and the beach contains a variety of intertidal rocks.
3. Jack Foster Trail (west) - Access is on Southey Point Road where it connects to Sunset Drive. Just a few meters up the Southey Point Road on the right there is a trail marker which indicates the start of a trail to a pebble beach (about 40 min walk time). This is a wide serene beach with lots of shells and a superb view of Wallace Island.
4. Jack Foster Trail (east) - Located around 10 km northwest of Ganges, the access to the beach is at the junction or North End Road and North View Place. It takes about 10 minutes to get to the beach.
5. Hudson Point - Access is from North Beach Road, north of the Fernwood Dock and contains a boat launching ramp over sand flats.
6. Fernwood Point - contains a Government Wharf located just off Walker Hook Road.
7. Maliview - This beach has a number of accesses all along North Beach and Walker Hook Roads. This is a good spot for long beach walks and to observe sea life, birds and ocean traffic.
8. Grantville Street - Located in the Walker Hook area, this beach has limited parking at the end of Grantville Street. It is a good place to observe tidal flats at low tide.
9. Beachside Drive - Access a short trail from the end of Beachside Drive. A good place to view Long Harbour and stroll a wide sandy shell beach. Good parking and a boat launch are available.
10. Long Harbour/Welbury Bay
    Access to the shore is by a path marked by two rock cairs in the Ferry staging area off Scott Point Drive on the right. This is a steep, rocky beach is beside the ferry staging area. Look for the path which is marked by two rock cairns a few meters up Scott Point Drive on the right.
11. Churchill Road - Access is at the end of Churchill Road on to a small sandy beach with a spectacular view of Ganges Harbour.
    
12. Rotary Maritime Park is located in the middle of downtown Ganges and overlooks Ganges Harbour. The small docks can be used to lanch kayaks and small dingys.
    
13. Price Road - Access is along a narrow grass road about 300 feet past the junction of Price Road and Cottonwood Road. Walk between two hourse to a sheel beach which is best a low tide.
14. Beddis Beach - Access is close to the end of Beddis Road and has a small sign marking the beach. There is on-road parking and a toilet in the adjacent park. This is a great place to picnic, stroll, wade into the shallows and watch deer coming to feed.
    
    
    
    Deer Feeding on Beddis Beach
    
15. Ruckle Provincial Park - Access from the parking lots at the Provincial Park. Great shoreline for walking or beach combing. North of the picnic area is a small cove that is great for swimming and scuba diving. BC Ferries and other marine traffic goes by this beach.
    
16. Eagles Road - Access is from Forest Ridge Road. This beach has limited parking and a great view of the Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal.
17. Seabright Drive - Now private property....no access thanks.
18. Drummond Park - Acess is from Drummond Park on the southwest shore of Fulford Harbour. This is a good beach for sun tanning, beachcoming and it has a special feature - a a petroglyph. The park has a children's playground, picnic tables and a pit toilet.
19. Isabella Point Road - Access is from a road side pull-off about 1.5 km along Isabella Point Road. There is a wide sandy beach along the southwest side of Fulford Harbour.
20. Musgrave Landing - Access to the beach is challenging. You might ask for local advice before searching out this beach. A 4x4 vehicle is recommended.
21. Burgoyne Bay - Access is gained near the government dock at the foot of Burgoyne Bay Road by climbing down on the left of the dock to the long, sandy shore.
22. Erskine Bay - Access is gained by going to the end of Collins Road where Maxwell/Cranberry creek flows into the sea. The beach has ample parking, a boat launching, and is good for swimming and exploring with excellent sunsets.
23. Booth Bay - Access the beach down a set of stairs at the end of Baker Road to a wide sunny beach. This beach is popular with sunbathers, clam diggers, explorers and beachcombers.
24. Quarry Drive Park - Access this park down a 10 minute trail with steep inclines to the beach. It is located near the end of Quarry Drive in Vesuvius, just north of Booth Bay.
    
25. Vesuvius Bay - At Vasuvius Bay, park on Langley Street and access the beach by stairs that lead to a rock strata beach with warm water for swimming and some great sunset views.
    
27. Zadra Road - Access is off Sunset Drive just south of Sir Echoes Road. Take the 300 meter trail to a west-facing bay.
    

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