![]() ![]() If possible, always go around the headland rather then over it. These are passable depending on the tide, but all have a bypass trail. The stretch of beach before the tidal lagoon has many small headlands. The tidal lagoon outflow can be a very easy (ankle-deep) wade (at low tide), or a swimming adventure (at high tide). This is a very nice short day of hiking and can be over before lunchtime. Camping is at any one of the number of pocket beaches before and after Maquinna Point (some have water, some don’t). The cliff section at the end of “Beano beach” is not passable at some high-tides and has no bypass trail. Most of the day involves trails along cliffs and in + out of coves (up, down, up, down…). When this is not the case, the crossing can be thigh-deep.īeano Creek to Maquinna Point. When this is the case crossing Beano Creek doesn’t even involve getting your feet wet. Beano Creek is sometimes dammed up by a sand/pebble dam built by wave action. Watch tides for crossing small creek at Third Beach (depending on the beach that year this may not be necessary) and for crossing Calvin Creek.Ĭalvin Falls to Beano Creek. First part of day is half beach/half trail, second part is all beach walking. Camp there (this allows for travelling from Vancouver on the same day, or a possible day trip north towards an old shipwreck and Ferrer Point) The trail is unofficial so no permits are required, but the First Nations charge a $40 (in 2005) access fee to cross their land (mainly at the end of the trail).įive days on the trail (Day6 is so short it hardly counts) lets you take your time and makes the timing for tides and the ferry out easier.įly in Louie Lagoon and hike to Third Beach (~30-45min). Gold River is only accesible by car or float plane (no buses run there). It is easiest to take the float plane into the trailhead (Louie Lagoon) and then the MV Uchuck III back out to Gold River. The end of the trail (Friendly Cove) is visited twice-weekly by the MV Uchuck III (a tourist ferry/supply boat out of Gold River). The trailhead is only accesible by float plane (from Gold River) or water taxi (from Gold River, Tahsis, or Zeballos). The Trail is located on the west coast of Nootka Island, pretty much straight across Vancouver Island from Campbell River. The Nootka Trail is a roughly five day, 35 km hike off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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