Cowichan Bay Kayaking and Adventure Centre

01/24/2026

It is time to share why it might be taking me longer than usual to answer your emails or phone messages. Since mid November I have had to slow down and focus on my health. Hiring of guides is going well and friends and family are very supporting. Summer tours will be running as usual. I am posting this link that friends have set up for me to provide those of you who I have had the pleasure of hosting on a trip or chatting with during the booking process, driven to and from trailheads have the opportunity to show your support in whatever way you wish. Thank you and bess you for being part of the Coastal Bliss Adventures / Cowichan Bay Kayaing community.

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10/14/2024

Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving 🇨🇦 from our family to yours!

10/03/2024

Just a reminder now we're into the Fall season: Group tours are still available by PRE-BOOKING only, and will be limited by staff and guide availability.
Kayaking, Canoeing, Bird Watching and more - view the full list of tours on our website and if you have any questions, please call the office at: 250-597-3031

https://cowichanbaykayaking.com/our-tours.html

09/30/2024

Honoring Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation


We thank the Cowichan Tribes, Ditidaht, Pacheedaht, Huu-ay-aht, Mowachaht, Muchalaht, Tsilhqot'in, Nahwitti, Kwakwakw'akw, Ahousaht, Hesquiaht, Tla-o-qui-aht, We Wai Kai, Dakelh, Kootenai, Tlingit, Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, Carcross/Tagish, Little Salmon/Carmacks, and Selkirk First Nations that have welcomed us to live, work and share on their traditional and on-going territories. We are committed to honouring these relationships and recognize that the lands and all they contain are all our relations.

09/24/2024

09/17/2024

Did you know we also offer Kayak Skills Clinics ? 👩‍🏫🫵
Why not Refresh Or Build Skills this Fall With A Short Clinic. 👌

Sea Kayak Skills Clinics
We offer 3-hour skills clinics if you just need specific skills or a brush up on skills you have used but partly forgotten 🤔. You know there is more to kayaking than just sitting in the boat 🚣‍♀️ and paddling around, and you are responsibly building or retraining. If you are less experienced, or need to completely refresh, try a Paddle Canada 🇨🇦 course. We can offer up to PC Level 2 Skills, which prepares you for making your own overnight kayaking tours ⛺️. To see those, go to Paddle Canada Certified Courses on our website.

Rescues & Water Safety
This 3 hour clinic will teach/refresh you on rescue skills 🛟🚑, both assisted rescues and self-rescues, as well as other water safety considerations. This is a mostly practical course, so you will be on, and in, the water. 🙌

Navigation & Sea States
This 3 hour clinic will teach/refresh you on navigation skills 📡, coupled with weather and its effect on the sea 🌊 We will spend some time looking at charts and compasses, but will spend a significant time on water. This is ultimately a practical course to get you more confident out paddling.

Paddle Stroke Development
This 3 hour clinic will teach/refresh you on paddling skills, particularly stroke development and how you can work to continuously improve your paddling skills 💪👊. We will on water pretty much the entire time. This is ultimately a practical course to get you more confident and knowledgeable about strokes and maneuvering a kayak.

https://cowichanbaykayaking.com/kayaking-skills-clinics.html

09/10/2024

Another recent review from one of our Bioluminescence tours🌛- easily one of our most popular 🙌🤙 adventure tours here in Cowichan Bay. Thanks so much for your kind words Stefan! ❤️
https://cowichanbaykayaking.com/kayak-night-tours.html

09/06/2024

It's looking to be another warm weekend coming up ☀️ 🥵 The perfect time - some might say - for a nice cool paddle around the Bay. How does that sound? 👍🙌
Skills Lessons, Kayaks, SUPs & Canoe Rentals?? Whale 🐳 Watching, Wildlife 🦆🦀 and Guided Tours including our awesome 🌛 night-time Bioluminescence & "Date ❤️" Night Paddling Tours - not to be missed! All from right here in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island 🇨🇦. Come on down to the dock and join in the Summer Fun !
https://cowichanbaykayaking.com/
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08/29/2024

One of the best things about living on Vancouver Island, BC 🇨🇦 and working in the great outdoors everyday is the wildlife. We're lucky to get to see these majestic birds on many of our tours and we're not embarassed to share just how much we love it ❤️.
The Cowichan Valley is an amazing birding area, known for its raptors, especially. But the variety of birds here is astounding 👀. Our local wetlands draw an incredible migration 🦆, but also hold a vast number of resident species. Birding and Nature tours make for a great outdoor adventure! ☝️
https://cowichanbaykayaking.com/

08/27/2024

Date Night Ideas for the end of Summer ...❤️
Come Kayak By Moonlight 🌛or Bioluminescence. It's Incredible 🤩!!
- Our night tours are some of the most special times paddling 🛶in Cowichan Bay 🇨🇦. The times vary throughout the summer, as the days lengthen headed toward summer solstice, and then shorten after June 21st. We start these tours just before sunset, watching the colorful glow over the surrounding mountains 🗻, paddling slowly around the bay, waiting for darkness and the first light of the bioluminescence. The full moon 🌝nights give an added treat, but limit the visibility of the bioluminescence. These are all really the same tour, but what you see is different.

"Had the wonderful luck of seeing red sun set and then blood moon/full moon rise on the same trip. Lots of bio-luminescence, good guides. Thanks!" ~Dean P

https://cowichanbaykayaking.com/kayak-night-tours.html

08/10/2024

Upcoming Kids and Youth Camps
Reminder: Spaces still available for Aug 2 – 15 Cost $269 + tax
https://cowichanbaykayaking.com/kids-day-camps.html