Lighthouse Bay

Lighthouse Bay (49˚01'00" 123˚35'00" Between Race Point and Virago Point, Porlier Pass, NW end of Galiano I, Gulf Is). A pair of light towers were erected on Race and Virago points in 1902 as range markers to guide ships through the dangerous waters of Porlier Pass. With its rocks, reefs and swirling, 10-knot (18.5-km/h) currents, the pass had long been recognized as unsafe and was the site of numerous wrecks. By the late 1800s, though, steam vessels bound from Vancouver for Ladysmith’s...

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