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Squamish: The Sea-to-Sky Adventure Getaway
Adventure & Outdoors
Walk the Boundary Bay Dyke from Centennial Beach
Flat, breezy, and bald-eagle-dotted: Delta's Centennial Beach to the dyke, where you set the distance and the eagles set the pace.
Adventure & Outdoors
Flat, breezy, and bald-eagle-dotted: Delta's Centennial Beach to the dyke, where you set the distance and the eagles set the pace.
Boundary Bay is Metro Vancouver's widest sky, a vast tidal expanse on Delta's edge where the dyke trail runs flat and breezy with the open strait on one side and salt marsh and farmland on the other. Start at Centennial Beach and you get a genuine sandy shoreline to begin from, warm shallow water on a summer afternoon, and a smooth gravel path stretching off toward Beach Grove. You set the distance yourself: ten minutes to the beach grass or a long, talky out-and-back, it's entirely up to you. Bald eagles patrol overhead, raptors work the fields, and in season the bay fills with shorebirds and snow geese. One honest warning: there's almost no shade on the dyke, so this is a cool-morning or golden-hour date in summer, when the light rewards the effort and you both look excellent.
