Departure Bay

Departure Bay is a bay in central Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the east shore of Vancouver Island. The encompassing neighborhood is likewise alluded to as "Departure Bay"— once its very own settlement, it was amalgamated into the City of Nanaimo in the 1970s. The bay is surrounded toward the west by Vancouver Island and toward the south-east by Newcastle Island, a commonplace marine stop with a long history of mining, quarrying, herring salteries and tourism.

Jesse Island (9 sections of land or 3.6 hectares) and the littler Brandon Island are situated close to the northern shore of the bay. The two islands, however very little, have fluctuated chronicles; Brandon Island being remarkable for a past filled with Japanese fish canneries and salteries. In 1853 the two islands were named after mariners on HMS Virago. Snake Island is a found simply outside the mouth of the bay.

Since the most punctual European settlements, the zone has been a generally bustling port, for itself and the encompassing networks. The Trans-Canada Highway on Vancouver Island ends in the north at Departure Bay, where a B.C. Ship terminal is found. Ships out of Departure Bay associate the Trans-Canada Highway to the Lower Mainland at Horseshoe Bay. As a noteworthy connector to Vancouver, Departure Bay is the most intensely utilized Island terminal north of Swartz Bay.