Creation of Brooks Point Regional Park

The Pender Islands Conservancy played a key role in the acquisition of Brooks Point. The Conservancy partnered with the Friends of Brooks Point, the Islands Trust Conservancy, The Habitat Acquisition Trust, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and the CRD in raising funds necessary to purchase and protect an ecologically diverse and vulnerable area of land adjoining Gowland Point on South Pender Island. The land was purchased in stages over several years, and the result is the beautiful Brooks Point Regional Park.

Brooks Point Regional Park is a “gem of the Gulf Islands”, which includes one of the last undeveloped headlands in the Southern Gulf Islands. Visitors enjoy spectacular

views of Boundary Pass and Mount Baker, rich marine and intertidal life, magnificent giant Douglas firs, and a boardwalk path through quiet stands of forest. In the spring, meadows of chocolate lilies and camas bloom. It is home to an increasingly rare mature Garry Oak stand, which provides habitat for the endangered Sharp-tailed snake. Bird lovers can try to spot some of the over 134 different bird species identified, while the rocky shores provide a vantage point for viewing resident Orca pods that occasionally travel along the shoreline.