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The island has many beaches, trails, lakes, and parks. Main Lake Provincial Park is located on the northern part of the island, and Rebecca Spit Marine Provincial Park is on the eastern shore, near Heriot Bay. Quadra Island is about 35 kilometres (22 miles) from its northernmost point to its southernmost point.
Main Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park on Quadra Island in British Columbia, Canada.Established in 1996 as Main Lakes Chain Park and renamed and expanded in 1997, [1] the park encompasses a large wilderness area of six lakes with many diverse animal, bird and plant species. [2]
The strait has a length of 25 km (16 mi) and an average width of 2 km (1.2 mi), narrowing to only 750 m (820 yd) at Seymour Narrows.Most of the eastern shoreline of the passage is Quadra Island, with Sonora Island forming the shoreline at the northern end where Discovery Passage meets Johnstone Strait.
Maurelle Island is located northeast of Quadra Island, southeast of Sonora Island, and north of Read Island within Electoral Area C of the Strathcona Regional District.The island is separated from the mainland by Calm Channel, from Quadra Island by Okisollo Channel, from Read Island by Whiterock Passage, and from Sonora Island by a narrow strait called Hole in the Wall.
Seymour Narrows is notable also because the flowing current can be sufficiently turbulent to realize a Reynolds number of about , i.e. one hundred million, which is possibly the largest Reynolds number regularly attained in natural water channels on Earth (the current speed is about 8 m/s, 26 ft/s, the nominal depth about 100 m, 330 ft). [4]
The Maine Island Trail Association (abbreviated MITA) is a grassroots, volunteer-run conservation and preservation group based in Portland, Maine, United States. It was co-founded by David Getchell Sr. in 1988, following a land survey , conducted by the State of Maine, of the state's uninhabited coastal islands.
The North–South Trail (RI) is a 77-mile (124 km) hiking trail that runs the length of Rhode Island from the Atlantic Ocean in Charlestown to the Massachusetts border in Burrillville, Rhode Island. The trail is remarkably rural and scenic. Features include attractive lakeshores, bogs, beaches, hills, rock outcrops, farmland, and dense woodland ...
Ripple Rock (French: Roche Ripple) [1] is an underwater mountain located in the Seymour Narrows of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia, Canada.It had two peaks (2.74 metres and 6.4 metres below the surface at low tide) that produced large, dangerous eddies from the strong tidal currents that flowed around them at low tide.