Scuba Diving in Nanoose Bay: Every Shore Dive Site on the Peninsula

Key takeaways

• Five shore dive sites sit on the Nanoose peninsula, and all of them are beach entries. None require a boat.
• Madrona Point is the best known, with four named walls running from roughly 60 feet to 90 feet.
• Giant Pacific octopus and wolf eels hold established dens along the Madrona Point walls.
• Visibility is best from late fall through early spring. Water is cold year-round and drysuits are standard.
• There are no facilities at any of the sites. The nearest air fills are in Nanaimo and Parksville.

Nanoose Bay has more well-known shore diving than any other stretch of comparable coastline on eastern Vancouver Island. Five sites along the Nanoose peninsula are dived regularly, ranging from sheltered training bays to…

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Nanoose Bay Beaches, Parks and Trails: A Complete Guide

Key takeaways

• Moorecroft Regional Park is the largest and most-visited: 35 hectares along a kilometre of shoreline.
• Nanoose Hill, still widely called the Notch, is the peninsula's signature hike.
• Enos Lake is known worldwide in evolutionary biology for a stickleback species pair that collapsed after invasive crayfish arrived.
• Three waterfalls run on one creek at Shooting Star. They are seasonal and can dry up by midsummer.
• Wall Beach is the best swimming beach. Most other Nanoose Bay shoreline is pebble and rock shelf.

Nanoose Bay has an unusual density of public green space for a community of roughly 6,540 people. Two regional parks, a string of community parks and beach accesses, a federal wildlife area, and several…

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Moving to Nanoose Bay: What Buyers Should Know Before They Commit

Key takeaways

• Nanoose Bay is unincorporated. There is no municipal government, it is administered as Electoral Area E of the Regional District of Nanaimo.
• Servicing is not uniform. Fairwinds has community water and sewer; much of the peninsula runs on private wells and septic.
• The benchmark price was $929,500 in June 2026, roughly $113,000 above Nanaimo.
• The nearest hospital is Nanaimo Regional General, about 30 minutes south.
• A naval testing range has operated in Nanoose Harbour since the 1960s.

Nanoose Bay is one of the more desirable places to buy on eastern Vancouver Island, and it is also one of the more misunderstood. Buyers arriving from a city routinely underestimate what unincorporated living involves, and buyers…

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Carly's House - One Realtors Cancer Journey Transforms Into Hope For Families

Carly’s House — A Story of Purpose, Love, and Community

On January 1st, 2025—her birthday—my wife Carly became very sick, very fast while we were in Japan. Within a single day she was rushed to a hospital in Kyoto, where she required emergency surgery. Doctors removed a mass of tumors from her abdomen, and several suspicious lymph nodes. They were almost certain she had cancer.

She spent the next 14 days in that Kyoto hospital, drifting in and out of consciousness, often forgetting what she had been told. I never left her side. I stayed every possible minute of visiting hours, and I even snuck in when I wasn’t supposed to be there.

When she was clear-headed enough, I brought our 17-year-old daughter and her friend to see her. Carly had been…

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Joining a team vs going solo - Realtor Math (a must read for agents)

By Morgan Carey, COO – Carey Real Estate Group

The Myth of “Keeping More”

Vancouver Island Realtors®... Be honest... If you could already be making $100k, 200k or even 300k with the amount of time, expertise, money, and skill you have, you’d already be doing it. 

The solo model looks attractive because of the splits —example 75/25 until you cap at $20k, then just a few hundred dollars per deal for transaction fees + plus a monthly brokerage fee. But those numbers only tell half the story. They don’t show the hours lost juggling marketing, admin, compliance, content creation, and coordination — all the work that doesn’t directly generate revenue but absolutely eats your time.

When you join a team, you remove most of those distractions and focus…

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$2.1 In Wealth - One Nanaimo 4 Plex (Real Estate Investing Matters)

If you're thinking of investing in Nanaimo Real Estate, who you choose as your Realtor® matters. Having an experienced real estate team that has "done it" and developed proven methods for investing (and re-investing) in real estate over time is critical to long term success and wealth creation. 

Our family investing arm is called Carey Real Estate Holdings, and it is a separate business to our real estate sales business. It is where we invest the profits from our main businesses and re-invest the profits from our real estate portfolio. 

To date we have created a residential and commercial real estate portfolio with an estimated value over $20,000,000 (yes 20+ million dollars). And we've learned a thing or two along the way. 

For our potential investor…

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Beautiful UVIC Condo for female student

Looking for a Kind, Quiet Female UVic Student to Share a Beautiful 2-Bedroom Condo

Location: Tuscany Village – 1642 McKenzie Avenue
Bedrooms: 2 |  Bathrooms: 2 |  Size: 900 Sq Ft
Rent: $1,400 Includes Utilities 

If you're a kind, respectful, and easygoing female UVic student looking for the perfect mix of comfort, convenience, and community — this may be the ideal home for you!

About the Condo

• Immaculate top-floor, corner unit with mountain views and large skylights
• 2 large bedrooms on opposite sides of the suite for maximum privacy
• Your bedroom has brand-new flooring and your own full bathroom
• Spacious kitchen with raised bar, dishwasher, garburator, fridge, stove, and ample storage
• Fireplace and built-in wall safe
• …

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The Culinary Delights of Small-Town Cedar

The village of Cedar is a small community south of Nanaimo, known for its natural beauty and semi-rural designation. Despite its size, this area has a lot to offer, from outdoor recreation to restaurants and entertainment—and so much more.

New listing alert! Check out this luxury Cedar home! Before you keep reading, you NEED to see this new listing on Kurtis Cres

Cedar offers a selection of excellent dining options for a casual excursion or a more upscale experience. All of the following are located in and around the center of Cedar, and each offer something a little bit different!

Mahle House

2104 Hemer Road, Nanaimo

Mahle House is a fine dining restaurant in Cedar’s downtown area established in 1983. Set within a refurbished…

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Outdoor Activities in Cedar, BC Parks

Cedar is a beautiful, scenic community located less than 20 minutes south of the city of Nanaimo. Known as a tranquil area, residents of Cedar enjoy its more relaxed and easygoing nature, as this part of Central Vancouver Island is also recognized for its many parks and green spaces.

Whether you're interested in taking a spontaneous trip to see the water or planning a longer hike with the family, Cedar offers a variety of outdoor activities for those of all ages. Here are some of our favourites here at the Carly Carey Real Estate Team. 

New listing alert! Check out this luxury Cedar home! Before you keep reading, you NEED to see this new listing on Kurtis Cres

The Cable Bay Trail

A favourite of area residents, the Cable Bay Trailhead is…

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Meet Morgan Carey, COO, Carly Carey Real Estate Team

Meet Morgan Carey, COO, Carly Carey Real Estate Team

Hey there Nanaimo and area Realtors® nice to meet you! I'm Morgan :) 

Many of you may already know my awesome wife, Carly Carey, the owner and leader of the Carly Carey Real Estate Team, a new and dynamic team here in Nanaimo.

For those who don’t know me yet, I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. What I bring to the table for our team members is quite unique in our market, and I believe it can make a substantial difference to your career.

To be upfront, my goal is to help you make the decision to join our team at eXp Realty in Nanaimo. By doing so, you’ll not only significantly improve your skills as a salesperson but also generate a substantial and consistent income for…

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