A bustling farming community once thrived on Grenadier Island, but today it’s mostly the summer people who remain. Pieces of the past are sprinkled across the landscape of the place – rusting tilling plows, a boarded up school house, remnants of a rhubarb garden patch, and the submerged dock pilings of Angler’s Inn. The bustle of activity on the island is now made by boaters, hikers and paddlers who fancy the warm sandy beaches, "old fishing holes", vivid historic past, and abundant opportunities for sighting wildlife.

If the weather is fair, a circumnavigation of Grenadier Island is a spendid full-day paddle that brings you past extensive marshlands alive with noisy red-wing blackbirds, blue herons stalking prey, and perhaps an osprey circling overhead. Several landing points along the shores of Grenadier Island allow you to rest or stretch your legs on the trail network that connects human life on the island. National park facilities at the distant eastern and western tips of the island, and in the central northern and southern bays offer a full array of amenities. Awaiting you are quiet campsites, shaded picnic spots beside a sandy beach, and the historic picnic pavilion at the western head of the island where a sunset never looked so peaceful!

 For more information about this route (the maps, access points, trip length & distance, charts, extensions, hazards and points of interest) - please download the Adobe File: route7.pdf