Forest Island

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What you'll see (20)

Red Rock CrabCancer productusseen 127× near here

Yellow Shore CrabHemigrapsus oregonensisseen 109× near here

Ochre Sea StarPisaster ochraceusseen 86× near here

Egg-yolk JellyPhacellophora camtschaticaseen 74× near here

Purple Shore CrabHemigrapsus nudusseen 69× near here

Nuttall's CockleClinocardium nuttalliiseen 49× near here

Dungeness CrabMetacarcinus magisterseen 46× near here

Mottled StarEvasterias troscheliiseen 45× near here

Tidepool SculpinOligocottus maculosusseen 39× near here

Leather StarDermasterias imbricataseen 38× near here

Helmet CrabTelmessus cheiragonusseen 36× near here

Northern Kelp CrabPugettia productaseen 30× near here

Frilled DogwinkleNucella lamellosaseen 29× near here

Dock ShrimpPandalus danaeseen 27× near here

Painted AnemoneUrticina grebelnyiseen 27× near here

Pacific HerringClupea pallasiiseen 26× near here

Pacific Hairy Hermit CrabPagurus hirsutiusculusseen 24× near here

Purple Mahogany ClamNuttallia obscurataseen 24× near here

Buffalo SculpinEnophrys bisonseen 21× near here

Mossy ChitonMopalia muscosaseen 21× near here

Planning a trip

8–14 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

12,849km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 27 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug.

From 34,442 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~21h 39m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightVancouver (YVR)~19h 36mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~24 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 9mAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatForest Island~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Forest Island on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Vancouver

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Island: Sidney Island
Country: Canada
Marks: 48°39.924'N 123°20.000'W
Position: 48.6654, -123.3333
Note: Moved 600 m off the OSM position, into the water

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Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.