what are the beachs like in canada?

Beaches or bitches...which one do you want to know..? :laugh:
There are many both of them in Canada...

Some nice hot ones, in the summer especially!

great lakes have some amazing beaches....same with PEI and vancouver island.

okanagan area has some really nice beaches. make sure you visit them in the summer tho. lol

I'd imagine that the water off the beaches near Vancouver and Toronto are cold.

Anyone know what the water's like in the beaches of Lake Erie and the Okanagan?

The ocean temps of Southern BC are relatively the same as Southern California. I go swimming in the Georgia Strait & English Bay during the summer, and you can find warm pockets that are really nice. This time of year though its way too cold.

My favourite beaches in Canada are Parlee Beach in Shediac, NB, Cavendish Beach in P.E.I. , English Bay & Wreck in Vancouver, and Long Beach in Tofino BC.

Some pics.


Long Beach - Tofino:

http://www.florianboehler.de/images/Canada/long-beach-tofino-2433.jpg

http://www.gotofino.com/unjimages/imagesBeachsParksTrails/imagesLongBeach/lonbeachbeachsurfer.jpg

http://www.longbeachlodgeresort.com/content_images/index_images/index_main2_new.jpg

Cavendish PEI:
http://www.edu.pe.ca/sis/science7&9/Cavendish_beach_-_PE.jpg

http://www.travelblog.ca/photos/318.jpg

cavendish and long beach are simply amazing!!! I have had the pleasure of both.

Kamloops is surounded by over 50 lakes , all with nice beaches, well almost all. !

Parlee Beach in Shediac, New Brunswick has the warmest water's north of Virginia.

Vancouver island has some nice beaches. Rathtrevor near parksville is famous for its low tides going out about 1 kilometer.
Parksville is also home to the Sandcastle competition www.parksvillebeachfest.ca

The Juan de fuca trail and the west coast trail have some nice beaches. Here are three pictures of Long Beach near Tofino

http://img255.echo.cx/img255/5297/longbeach3zb.jpg http://img253.echo.cx/img253/9906/longbeach22ax.jpg http://img175.echo.cx/img175/5535/longbeachsunset11cw.jpg[/IMG]

Also Savory island off of Powell river has a very nice beach all the way around the island

Grand Beach about an hour north of Winnipeg is amazing. It's warm, the sand is perfect, and you can walk out for 100 meters and only be up to your neck in water. Very popular in the summer.

Very popular in the summer.

It's Manitoba. Was this detail really needed? ;)

Vancouver beaches:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/lg21a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/lg06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/abc.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/s250.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/ocean20/abb.jpg

Wasaga Beach in Ontario - the longest freshwater beach in the world:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/ocean20/wbh2002_012.jpg

Crystal beach in Ontario:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/ocean20/87228725UNIvBt_ph.jpg

Shushwap Lake:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/30da1126.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/DSC00066s.jpg

Another lake in BC:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/camplake.jpg

Harrison Lake, BC:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/ocean10/harrisson.jpg

The beaches in Vancouver are the Canadian equivalent to the beaches in Miami.

id have to say my favourite beach is Sauble beach..which is the second largest fresh water beach in the world after wasaga, and its only about an 1 1/2 hours away from wasaga to, offcouse its my favourite i live 15 minutes away from it hehe, its amazing in the summer though i feel like one of the few lucky Canadians to live in this area to be able to go to this beach all summer..hehe now im bragging

Some Nova Scotian beaches

Ingonish Beach

http://www.destination-ns.com/graphics/artgallery/images/air_066.jpg
http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~bbyao/photos/NS200208110815/IngonishBeach.jpg
http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North_America/Canada/East_Coast/ingonish_beach/photo/photo3ec48ea994d76.jpg

Crescent Beach

http://www.destination-ns.com/graphics/artgallery/images/air_004.jpg

Inverness Beach

http://www.destination-ns.com/graphics/artgallery/images/air_144.jpg

Keji

http://www.nova-scotia-kanada.de/pics/ns_4s.jpg

Lawrencetown Beach

http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North_America/Canada/East_Coast/lawrencetown/photo/photo_surf_Canada_East_Coast_lawrencetown_41d6d43b2694f.jpg

http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North_America/Canada/East_Coast/lawrencetown/photo/photo_surf_Canada_East_Coast_lawrencetown_4242e322d289f.jpg

http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North_America/Canada/East_Coast/lawrencetown/photo/photo_surf_Canada_East_Coast_lawrencetown_41c837a0639e8.jpg

Nice right hander peeling in. I can't imagine how bad my legs would be burn if I rode that all the way to the inside. The small black dots are surfers.

Sorry inlanders. Lakes in no way can compare to the ocean ever.

cavendish and long beach are simply amazing!!! I have had the pleasure of both.

Me too. I would love to go to the one one Lake Winnipeg though

i live at saratoga beach on vancouver island and it's AMAZING in the summer because it's total sand and the water is very nice and warm.

Anyone know what the water's like in the beaches of Lake Erie and the Okanagan?

Lake Erie water temps get pretty warm in late summer since it's the shallowest of the Great Lakes.

i live at saratoga beach on vancouver island and it's AMAZING in the summer because it's total sand and the water is very nice and warm.

yeah, beaches with sand are great.

well, yeah...but you get some beaches that are all rocks...

Crescent Beach in NS looks amazing! How popular is surfing out there? We have a Crescent Beach in Vancouver too...but not nearly as nice IMO. It's kinda cool when the tide goes out because you can walk really far out on sand flats, and there are a few palms growing but i'd say its one of the lower quality beaches around SoBC

I like Grand Bend (Ontario)
http://www.grandbend.com/images/a2.jpg
http://www.grandbend.com/images/aaa60a.jpg
http://www.grandbend.com/images/beach10.jpg
http://www.grandbend.com/images/menvolley12a.jpg
http://www.grandbend.com/images/various2.jpg
http://www.grandbend.com/images/various1.jpg
Their little downtown is cool too.

Some beaches in Vancouver can be fairly warm since many of them are sheltered and shallow, most are warmer then San Francisco area beaches which are directly exposed to the Pacific. Of cource the lakes in the Okanogan are quite warm.
http://www.seevancouverbc.com/story/story2/2449b-15a.JPG

Grand Beach (Manitoba) North of Winnipeg.
http://www.win.trlabs.ca/~tao/pic/240803/24080306.jpg
http://www.grandbeachrealty.mb.ca/AIRIAL_PHOTO_OG_GRAND_BEACH.jpg

Crescent Beach in NS looks amazing! How popular is surfing out there? We have a Crescent Beach in Vancouver too...but not nearly as nice IMO. It's kinda cool when the tide goes out because you can walk really far out on sand flats, and there are a few palms growing but i'd say its one of the lower quality beaches around SoBC

Surfing is probably about the same in popularity here as in B.C. A few really popular spots, but for the most part places are relatively empty. Most of the best places for surfing aren't even real beaches, more like rocky points and places you wouldn't really want to put out a towel and relax at lol.

Cobourg beach

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/drjoe12/cobourg/160616920gXwClF_ph.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/drjoe12/cobourg/beach.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/drjoe12/cobourg/t_cobourg.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/drjoe12/cobourg/breakers.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v339/drjoe12/cobourg/top_festivals.gif

There is a beach on Pancake Bay, on lake superior, it's the longest white send beach on lake superior, about 1 1/2 miles long, or so. In the winter, it's a freezing hell. But during a summer heat wave, it's almost as good as beached in the rest of Canada! For a beach in Northern Ontario, though..

Some nice beaches here on Sable Island

http://linkdirectory.com/paulillsley/sableisland/medium/054.jpg

As long as you don't mind swimming with these guys :eek2:

http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/shark/english/images/Wh_shark1.jpg

http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/shark/english/images/large%20mako.jpg

http://i.timeinc.net/surf/content/images/04/shark/shark300.jpg

Some nice beaches here on Sable Island
Here as in, "I" live here?

Hey, I have been to Grand Beach! It was nice, better than Winnipeg beach.

Here as in, "I" live here?

LOL. No sorry, I meant as in here in Nova Scotia. Sorry for the confusion. Only people living there are scientists as you need government permission to even set foot on the place.

http://i.timeinc.net/surf/content/images/04/shark/shark300.jpg

Oh my God. :runaway:

Yeah well then that doesnt really count as a beach if you cant go to it. Those sharks are sweet though :)

Yeah well then that doesnt really count as a beach if you cant go to it. Those sharks are sweet though :)

Yea I pretty much just brought Sable Island up as a joke. I'd like to go there someday just because its so isolated and remote, but I wouldn't want to stay there for any length of time. The scientests there must be going shack whacky :bash:

I would imagine the winds on that island to be pretty intense!

Lake Erie water temps get pretty warm in late summer since it's the shallowest of the Great Lakes.

That's why I asked the question, since Lake Okanagan and Lake Erie are small and shallow compared to Lake Ontario / Strait of Georgia, they'd be warmer.

But how warm is "warm"? Is it over 20 degrees?

Here are the monthly average Lake Erie water temps (from NOAA)

Jan 1
Feb 0
Mar 1
Apr 5
May 10
June 16
July 20
Aug 23
Sep 21
Oct 16
Nov 10
Dec 5

Just north of Tofino on Vancouver Island.

http://members.shaw.ca/ipultr/CWebsite/Cwakweb/Pictures/Tofino.jpg

English Bay's water temperature averages 6 degrees celcius in January, with some years being as high as 10.

During the summer it is anywhere from 16-22 degrees C. If you go down to White Rock or Tsawwassen the water temps can be as high as 28C.

So it looks like the ocean surrounding Vancouver is warmer than the warmest of the great lakes any time of the year.

http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/parks/rec/beaches/images/english400.jpg

That's why I asked the question, since Lake Okanagan and Lake Erie are small and shallow compared to Lake Ontario / Strait of Georgia, they'd be warmer.

But how warm is "warm"? Is it over 20 degrees?

Lake Okanagan is not shallow. It has an average depth of 250 ft with a maximum depth of 800 ft.

Yeah thats what I was thinking too. It's a deep lake, which somewhat fuels the myth of Ogopogo and how they cant find it! lol

Yeah thats what I was thinking too. It's a deep lake, which somewhat fuels the myth of Ogopogo and how they cant find it! lol

Hey, I'm in Kelowna right now and I can tell you that Ogopogo is real! I saw it myself in the water - the statue. LOL.

There is a beach on Pancake Bay, on lake superior, it's the longest white send beach on lake superior, about 1 1/2 miles long, or so. In the winter, it's a freezing hell. But during a summer heat wave, it's almost as good as beached in the rest of Canada! For a beach in Northern Ontario, though..


The North shore of Lake Superior is one of the most beautiful drives one can do, and the beaches are amazing to walk along. For those who think that a lake is calm, just walk along its shores. Superior is so big and deep, it acts like a inland sea.

We could have had beaches like this if the Goverment had anexed the Turks and Caicos. I hope one day soon we can get a deal done and confederate that island paradise.

http://www.accesstravel.com/destinations/caribbean/images/turks_beaches6.jpg

^^ wtf does that mean We do have all the beaches in this thread already without an island. I hope the government doesn't annex any place. Thats such 19th century thinking!

We need the Turks and Caicos Islands like China needs immigration.

^LOL!!! Exactly right.

People aren't considering the problems that annexing the T&C would lead to for Canada. They just see the beaches and get a hard-on.

^LOL!!! Exactly right.

People aren't considering the problems that annexing the T&C would lead to for Canada. They just see the beaches and get a hard-on.
lol...he he...you said hard-on.
:lol: :lol:

^^ wtf does that mean We do have all the beaches in this thread already without an island. I hope the government doesn't annex any place. Thats such 19th century thinking!

i do personally get a hard-on thinking of anexing those islands and i dont see what problems it would cost, i mean they only have about 20,000 people, how hard would that be to integrate into canadian society, yes i know we would have to spend allot to bring them to our standard of living but in the end it would be worth it and wouldnt effect the average canadian that much at all, even if it did raise my tax dollars by up to $10 which would be allot of extra money X it by 32,500,000, i still wouldnt care cause to me it would be worth it.

Canada already has enough islands to worry about.

Why not work out a special relationship with T&C instead? I definitely would not want another variation of Quebec.

i do personally get a hard-on thinking of anexing those islands and i dont see what problems it would cost, i mean they only have about 20,000 people, how hard would that be to integrate into canadian society, yes i know we would have to spend allot to bring them to our standard of living but in the end it would be worth it and wouldnt effect the average canadian that much at all, even if it did raise my tax dollars by up to $10 which would be allot of extra money X it by 32,500,000, i still wouldnt care cause to me it would be worth it.
People who oppose the annexation of the T&C do so on the grounds that it is unquestionably a one way street. Think about it for a second : What do we actually get out of this deal as Canadians ? Absolutely nothing. We get to pay to bring a couple of islands up to our standard of living. We get nothing else. Think we'll all get free trips to the T&C islands or something ? Guess again. Think it will provide an incentive for Canadian investment there ? Why would it? It would cost us more in the event of annexation to invest there than it does now. It may only be 20,000 people or so but MRI's aren't costed out on how many people they'll serve.
Some people say "Bah, think about all the people we'll be helping by bringing up their standard of living" Okay, so then why don't we annex sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia while we're at it then ? No, if we're going to help them there are plenty of other ways to do it that won't require us to pay indefinitely through our taxes. It's not selfish, it's common sense. We give, they receive. If some Canuck wants to build a resort there now, nobody is standing in his or her way. They don't need our taxes to do it.

They should work out the same deal that the U.S does. For instance, the U.S Virgin Islands. Let them be independent, but still "Canadian" territory.

^Well, sure but think about that for a second as well : The way it's set up in your case , it's pretty obvious that the US is the big winner there. What does the US give to the Virgin Islands ? Whatever it is, it's gotta be a pittance compared to what they'd get if they were a state (assuming they get anything worth mentioning at all) The US on the other hand, gets a base for it's military. Canada doesn't have much use for it's own version of the Virgin Islands.

i do personally get a hard-on thinking of anexing those islands and i dont see what problems it would cost, i mean they only have about 20,000 people, how hard would that be to integrate into canadian society, yes i know we would have to spend allot to bring them to our standard of living but in the end it would be worth it and wouldnt effect the average canadian that much at all, even if it did raise my tax dollars by up to $10 which would be allot of extra money X it by 32,500,000, i still wouldnt care cause to me it would be worth it.

The T&C has a myriad of problems, one of the most serious is the in flood of Haitian refugees the place gets. If the T&C were to join with Canada, it would only become a much bigger magnet for refugees - and they would want to come here.

I want to blaze a fat one on the beaches of Vancouver Island

Sunset Beach:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/529/2507sunsetss.jpg

Kits Beach

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/529/2507kitsbeach.jpg

ah...forget all this bean-counting mentality...let's just bring the T&C into the Canadian family cause it's just a cool idea. Haitian refugees...there's only 20,000 people in total on the islands...Canada brings in more refugees every year than that. How much money leaves our economy every year on sun and sand trips?

Let's have a little fun once in a while.





KGB

ah...forget all this bean-counting mentality...let's just bring the T&C into the Canadian family cause it's just a cool idea. Haitian refugees...there's only 20,000 people in total on the islands...Canada brings in more refugees every year than that. How much money leaves our economy every year on sun and sand trips?

Let's have a little fun once in a while.





KGB
So your idea of fun is to spend alot of money for nothing? Well, I guess I do that every time I go to the bar, but then again, that's my choice. Tell you what though, YOU can annex the T&C and pay for it yourself. :)

Seriously how much would it cost?? A couple billion or something not that large. One thing is for sure, it would be great for the country's moral

Seriously how much would it cost?? A couple billion or something not that large. One thing is for sure, it would be great for the country's moral
Gee...um..what a steal. We give them a couple billion and we get...um...well the thing is...see....er...we get to say that they are now a part of Canada and we can pay and pay and pay to our hearts' content ! Whee !

Seriously though, there is absolutely no value in it from a Canadian perspective. Why does everybody seem to think that we'll all get annual vacations there or something ?

ah...forget all this bean-counting mentality...let's just bring the T&C into the Canadian family cause it's just a cool idea. Haitian refugees...there's only 20,000 people in total on the islands...Canada brings in more refugees every year than that. How much money leaves our economy every year on sun and sand trips?

Let's have a little fun once in a while.

KGB

Actually, the population of Haiti is way more than 20,000. :)

ah...forget all this bean-counting mentality...let's just bring the T&C into the Canadian family cause it's just a cool idea. Haitian refugees...there's only 20,000 people in total on the islands...Canada brings in more refugees every year than that. How much money leaves our economy every year on sun and sand trips?

Let's have a little fun once in a while.





KGB

Damn it. I hate having to agree with KGB.

How much money leaves our economy every year on sun and sand trips?

Let's have a little fun once in a while.

KGB
Exactly.

Actually, the population of Haiti is way more than 20,000. :)
Actually, he was referring to T&C :P .