Regional Park near Lakes Deer and Beaver

The Regional Park near Lakes Deer and Beaver is a popular outdoor recreation area in Saanich. The park offers great opportunities for athletes. On a large freshwater lake you can meet fishermen, water skiers, swimmers, windsurfers and even canoe rowers.

Cyclists, riders and tourists walk along the wooded paths of the park.

The territory of the park includes not only Lake Beaver and beaches, but also forests, fields and swamps and ponds. The total area is about 442 hectares. In the north of Lake Elk is Eagle Beach, where you can have a picnic under the huge Pacific willows, swim in the lake, soak up the sun-drenched sand.

Waves of windsurfers are caught on Hamstley Beach. In 1966, it was decided to take the park under protection and declare it a regional park. The lake has been supplying Canadians with fresh water for many years.

The park near Lakes Deer and Beaver is home to many wild animals and plants. Here grows a rare species of edible psoralea, licorice, fern, yellow lilies, reed, poplar, red alder, Pacific apple tree and red Canadian cedar.

There are some common species of birds and animals: geese, bald eagles, crumbs, oars, owls, red-winged thrushes, black-tailed deer, moose and beavers. In the waters lives rainbow trout, small-mouthed bass, river otter. And, of course, it is worth mentioning giant frogs. On the western side of the lake there is a horse center.