Botanical Beach - Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Botanical Beach is one of those places that really amaze its visitors. About a 90 minute drive from Sooke, accessible off Highway 14, Botanical Beach Provincial Park is a natural wonder known for its intertidal zone and crystal clear tide pools that are home to many fascinating marine species. The beach is about a 15 minute walk from the public pay parking lot, and is equipped with toilets and picnic tables. This Class A provincial park is the perfect day-trip from Sooke or Victoria.
Botanical Beach also features many geological marvels, such as its ridges of shale and quartz that marble through the black basalt, producing some of the most picturesque terrain. Youll want to bring the camera on this excursion.
Botanical Beach StarfishLow tide, about 4 feet or less, offers the best viewing opportunities of the many organisms that inhabit the shoreline and tide pools at Botanical Beach. Youll come across sea urchins, starfish, chitons and anemones, as well as mussels, barnacles, and snails of all sorts. Click here to see Tide Chart for Botanical Beach
When exploring at Botanical Beach, its important to keep an eye on the ocean, for two reasons:
1. The waves and tide at Botanical Beach can be unpredictable; unexpectedly strong and large. Small children, pets and even adults can easily be swept off the slick rocks.
2. You never know when you might see Grey whales, Orcas, Harbor Seals, or California and Northern Sealions swimming or feeding along the shoreline.
Located just past Port Renfrew, the excellent trails of Botanical Beach also attract hikers from around the world. The park features trails of all difficulty levels, including the Mill Bay, Botany Bay, and Shoreline trails; as well, Botanical Beach is the northern trailhead of the renowned West Coast Trail.
For more information on the Sooke Region, please visit the official Discover Sooke website at
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Botanical Beach. Port Renfrew, B.C.
Botanical Beach Provincial Park is a natural wonder known for its intertidal zone and crystal clear tide pools that are home to many fascinating marine species.
When exploring at Botanical Beach, it’s important to keep an eye on the ocean, for two reasons:
The waves and tide at Botanical Beach can be unpredictable; unexpectedly strong and large. Small children, pets and even adults can easily be swept off the slick rocks.
You never know when you might see Grey whales, Orcas, Harbor Seals, or California and Northern Sealions swimming or feeding along the shoreline.
A Day At Botanical Beach, BC Canada
A day off at one of BC's most picturesque parks and beach. Botanical Beach, located just a few miles of Port Renfrew, BC.
This video features shots of Botanical Beach Loop Trail, Botany Bay and surrounding areas.
Botanical Beach in Juan da Fuca Provincial Park, Port Renfrew BC
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Black Bear on Botanical Beach, Port Renfrew BC Canada - May 18, 2015
Near to our InFORM citizen science sampling site in Port Renfrew BC is Botanical Beach in the Juan de Fuca Provincial Park. The laboratory group went there to look at the tide pools and generally poke around. We saw a black bear foraging on the beach as the fog started to roll in. For more information on the InFORM project visit our website at
Port Renfrew, BC. - The Incredible Botanical Beach!
Welcome to Botanical Beach at Port Renfrew, BC! Botanical Beach is known for its tide pools and amazing sea life along the beach's shoreline. Come explore the rest of Port Renfrew with us here:
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Botanical Beach is an ecological treasure on the SW corner of Vancouver Island. A winding two hour drive from Victoria and a half hour hike down a well kept rain forest trail takes you to several flat rocky beaches. These are pocked with crystal clear aquarium like tide pools from sink to swimming pool sized. At low tide its easy to get close up to the abundant mussels, barnacles, purple sea urchins, fish, starfish and fascinating eroded rock formations. Offshore seals, sea lions and whales are commonly sighted. A Yuneec Q500 quadcopter from the air, Lumix LX100 on the surface and GoPro Hero3 underwater captured the scenery on a rare windless day.
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В двух часах езды от Виктории находится Ботанический пляж которий является частью Морской тропы Хуан-де-Фука и соответствующего провинциального парка Хуан-де-Фука. Ботанический пляж обеспечивает среду обитания для сотен видов растений и животных.
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Visit to Remarkable Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island
A unique part of Vancouver Island featuring spectacular wild coastline with colorful ocean tide pools & surfing ducks! We head out from Victoria over to the west side of the island near the town of Port Renfrew for a hike down to a remarkable beach.
Located in Juan De Fuca Provincial Park, Botanical Beach is home to tantalizing tide pools chock full of marine life. The pools are carved out of ancient sandstone and act like crystal clear natural aquariums. Also, as chance would have it during my visit, some cute Harlequin Ducks showed up and did some surfing in the ocean waves. They are quite the nimble little critters.
You’ll see footage from the approx 2.5 KM loop trail through the coastal forest, panoramas of the fantastic seascape, ducks in the surf, and close-ups of the tide pools. Enjoy!
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Gin and I take a day trip to Port Renfrew to check out Botanical Beach
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It was the best location for the unlikeliest crew. In the summers from 1901 to 1907, students and instructors from the University of Minnesota (UMN), some 3,000 kilometers away, made their way by train, coastal steamship, and on foot over a muddy forest trail, to study the marine life on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island. The site was selected by Josephine Tilden, an instructor at the UMN, whose passion was phycology, the study of seaweeds. (She first traveled to the area in 1898 with her mother in tow, presumably as a chaperone, and used her own money to secure the land for the station site.)
Despite the extreme logistical challenges of maintaining a small field station on a remote Canadian shore, from a biological standpoint Tilden couldn’t have chosen better: she’d discovered a phycologist’s nirvana. The extensive rock shelf of Botanical Beach, as the area is now known, was a perfect outdoor classroom and laboratory with a rich biodiversity of marine life, particularly algae and invertebrates, that was accessible on foot—whether wearing trousers or a long skirt—at mid- to low-tide.
For seven summers, about 25 students, faculty, and scientists, studied at the Minnesota Seaside Station, working out of three log buildings: the main Lessonia Lodge (named for a species of kelp) and two bunkhouses. To the disappointment of Tilden and her colleagues, the university chose not to assume management and funding of the station—its value seemed to elude them—and the last summer session was held in 1907.
Although recognized for years for its biological significance, Botanical Beach was not protected as a provincial park until 1989 and now is part of the larger Juan de Fuca Provincial Park.
The legacy of hands-on, outdoor learning has lived on and the area has been used a field site for biology students from Canada and the United States for decades. This video takes you to Botanical Beach with students and instructors from the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor lab’s “ZooBot” course. This class has used Botanical Beach as a field site for over 35 years.
Best Day Trip from Victoria, B.C. Botanical Beach, Plus Black Bears on the Beach
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Botanical Beach is one of our absolute favourite day trips from Victoria. You have to check the tides before you go to make sure you are going to have access to the beach.
It is a 2 hour and 15 minute drive from Victoria, but it is a beautiful one. Oh, and you are going to want to pack a picnic and lots of water. Outside of Shirley Delicious Cafe in Shirley, B.C. there really isn't anywhere to eat around there as far as we know. If you know of any good places to eat around Botanical Beach, let us know in the comments!
When you arrive at Botanical Beach it is about a 15 minute walk through the beautiful forest down to the beach itself. Black Bear and Cougar can be present so it is always suggested that you exercise caution on the trail and pack out your garbage. :)
When the tide is out you will be able to see incredible intertidal life. There are congregations of sea stars, purple sea urchins, chitons and anemones in the tidal pools. You go from tidal pool to tidal pool, looking at all the wildlife that would normally be completely submerged in the ocean.
The geology is incredible as well. The main tidal pools and sculptured formations are formed out of soft sandstone. Some ot the tidal pools are created by wave-tossed bolders grinding out pockets in the sand stone. Purple sea urchins grind out smaller pockets in the tidal pools themselves. The sandstone cliffs are beautiful.
Besides staring into the tidal pools and the shape of the landscape, there is plenty to watch in the ocean as well. I could spend hours watching the high waves crash against the rocks. Orca Whales and Gray Whales migrate from Mexico to Alaska between March and April. It is not unusual to see California Sea Lions and seals as well.
On this trip to Botanical Beach a Mama Black Bear and her cub ambled out onto the beach while we were there. We spent about two hours hanging back, out of their way and watching them as they ate their way through muscles, seaweed and grass. It was a pretty incredible experience.
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Botanical Beach
Take a trip to one of our favourite BC Parks: Botanical Beach near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island.
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Botanical Beach, Vancouver Island Hiking
In this video we explore the breath taking Botanical Beach. This is an easy 2.5km loop trail (1.5 km to the beach) that was easily concured by toddlers (ages 2, 4 and 5). The Beauty of this hike was beyond our expectations as you can see from drone footage. Botanical Beach is a must see place on Vancouver island located near Port Renfrew just at the end of Juan De Fuca trail. There is a picnic area at the parking lot, washrooms, and clear trail. Some spots might be muddy, we would advise to wear tougher shoes due to barnacles on rocks when you get to the beach.
Please comment bellow what hike on Vancouver Island we should try out next.
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Walk to Botanical Beach at Port Renfrew
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