As you head north to Egmont and Earl’s Cove, you can canoe or kayak Sakinaw Lake and follow the portage route up to Ruby Lake. Sakinaw Lake is open to the salt water in the Agamemnon Channel and accessible this way by canoe or kayak.

• Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park. Depart Egmont for a 45-minute hike into the park. In Salish, Skookumchuck means “strong or turbulent waters”. At Roland Point, you can actually hear bubbling, boiling tidal rapids roar. They can reach up to 16 knots when they shoot through the narrows. Check local tide tables to time your arrival when tidal flows are at their peak.
• Ferry to Saltery Bay. Board at Earl’s Cove for a 50-minute cruise across Jervis Inlet and up Agamemnon Channel, past Nelson Island to Saltery Bay. Follow Hwy. 101 to Powell River and some of the most pristine marine wilderness on the West Coast.
• Hotham Sound. East of Egmont, protected from the open sea, the wilderness comes right to the edge of ultra-calm waters; a large tidal exchange feeds teeming marine life. The Sound also features the 365-m. (1,200-ft.) Freil Falls and enchanting Harmony Islands.