Route update · September 27

The walk now goes through Tsawwassen, and is back on schedule in Victoria

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Tsawwassen and the Ferry

Day 21 · Scheduled earlier

Tsawwassen, Delta

Winskill Park, Tsawwassen, Delta, BC

From Ladner Trunk Road to Tsawwassen

This day on the route

Planned date: September 27, 2026
The day: Walking
Planned walking: 9.8 miles

Day 21: about 9.8 planned walking miles from Ladner Trunk Road in Delta to Tsawwassen. The mileage follows a mapped walking route by the Boundary Bay dyke; her own path on the day may differ.

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Gouache panorama of golden coastal fields, a winding drainage channel and scattered farm buildings, with blue water and a thin causeway in the distance. — Coastal farmland on the planned stage to Tsawwassen, Delta. Illustration.

Jeana started Day 21 on Ladner Trunk Road in Delta. The planned stage runs about 9.8 miles south and west, partly along the Boundary Bay dyke trail, to Tsawwassen, in the traditional territory of the Tsawwassen First Nation. The walk turned this way after Jeana, who had a cold, canceled the Vancouver stops.

Tsawwassen was not the next stop on the first plan, which went north from Elgin toward Vancouver before coming back to the ferry. Jeana did not want to risk passing her cold to patients at Vancouver General Hospital, whose immune systems are suppressed, so the Vancouver stops were canceled and the walk turned west toward the coast instead.

Days 18 to 20, September 24 to 26, have no stop of their own on the new route, but they were full days. On the 24th she walked through Surrey. On the 25th Eric, of Canadian Blood Services, drove her to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver for a stem cell drive in the pouring rain. Canadian Blood Services ran the drive, and Jeana talked with people about joining the registry. CTV Vancouver and CityNews Vancouver covered the day. On the 26th she walked along Highway 10 into Delta, and people who had seen her on the TV news honked, waved and stopped to talk. On Sunday, September 27, she started Day 21 on Ladner Trunk Road, in Delta.

The mapped walking route from Ladner Trunk Road heads south to Boundary Bay, follows the dyke trail along the shore for a stretch, and comes into Tsawwassen by Beach Grove Road. Metro Vancouver’s Boundary Bay Regional Park lies along that shore, with a dyke trail running 17 kilometres to Mud Bay. The park is an internationally recognized Important Bird Area, a resting place for thousands of birds on the Pacific Flyway.

The Tsawwassen First Nation describes a traditional territory that takes in Burns Bog, the Point Roberts peninsula and the watersheds of the Nicomekl and Serpentine rivers. Its own lands lie beside Delta and the BC Ferries terminal at Tsawwassen. Tsawwassen means “Land facing the sea” in the Nation’s language, hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓. The Nation’s treaty with Canada and British Columbia, the first achieved in the province’s treaty process, took effect on April 3, 2009.

The town of Tsawwassen is one of the three communities that make up the City of Delta, with Ladner and North Delta. The city describes it as a beachside town beside the border and the BC Ferries terminal. Jeana plans to stay for two Bone Marrow Awareness Days, recruiting marrow donors in the Tsawwassen First Nation community, before taking the ferry to Vancouver Island.

From the road

September 27, 2026

Along the Boundary Bay dyke into Tsawwassen, and a kerfuffle over quarters

The day began at sunrise on Ladner Trunk Road in Delta, folding up her tent and packing up the pack. Then she headed just across the street to the Tim Hortons that had helped her the evening before. They helped her again that morning with some breakfast, and she was able to brush her teeth and comb her hair using their facilities. Most satisfying, she was able to get warm. It was pretty cold in the night; she was warm in her sleeping bag, but packing everything up she got pretty cold.

For most of the day’s walk she was on the Boundary Bay Dyke Trail, walking all the way into Tsawwassen. It was a magnificent day to be out, and it seemed like everyone was on the trail: people walking, running, biking, flying kites and riding horses, just enjoying the warmth of a beautiful day. Most of them were focused on whatever they were doing, so there wasn’t a lot of time to share with people. But on the latter part of the trail she ran into people who were lingering, and she could talk about the walk and how to join the Canadian Blood Services registry.

One group of kite flyers was very generous. They brought over two bottles of water, though she only needed one, and one of them shared a Kashi bar. She was so grateful for the nourishment. Then one of the men reached into his bag, said he knew what she needed, and came out with a small bottle of hand sanitiser, which she was running out of.

She began looking for places to stay on her phone. Because it was a Sunday she tried calling churches, but either they were in church or the call came too late and they were closed for the day, so she wasn’t able to reach any of the local churches.

Her cold was lingering, but much better. She walked to the Beach Grove Motel, where they said she had got their last available room. The Foundation covered it.

Getting her laundry done turned into quite a kerfuffle. She did not have any Canadian currency, and when she asked about doing laundry, the young woman at the motel said she would need $4.00 in Canadian quarters. She had a handful of change she had picked up along the road, and four U.S. one-dollar bills. The young woman sent her to a café around the corner, saying they could help her change the U.S. dollars into quarters so she could do her laundry.

At the café, the young woman behind the counter had trouble helping her, because they couldn’t change one-dollar bills into Canadian 25-cent pieces. She could take the U.S. coins, she said, but not the bills. So Jeana was counting out her change, about $1.30, and was still short of what she needed for the laundry. Then a gentleman who thought she was trying to buy something to eat came up behind her and offered to buy her lunch, and she accepted his kind offer. Then another young woman behind the counter brought her four Canadian 25-cent pieces. So she had $2.00 in Canadian coins, and lunch.

She went to the table where the gentleman and his wife were sitting, shared what she is doing, and thanked him for his kindness. He had seen that she was in distress trying to pay for something, and out of that he offered to feed her. She will remember his face: the man with the beautiful smile.

Having eaten, with her two dollars of Canadian coins in hand, she returned to her room, washed her clothes by hand and got them into the dryer. She still had work to do: she took her tent apart to dry overnight, because it had still been wet when she packed it up that morning. After a very long day it was finally time to rest, and she was very grateful to have a warm bed to sleep in that night.

How did he know that is what I needed?

Jeana Moore

Sunrise over flat farm fields, pink and gold cloud streaked across the sky above a line of jagged mountains and a low mist lying on the ground.

A lone tree silhouetted against a blazing pink and orange sunrise, a farm shed and a parked pickup below it and dandelion clocks in the field in front.

A road curving past a concrete divider toward a junction, with flat fields and a long blue mountain range beyond under a wide, wispy sky.

Morning sun glittering on a narrow channel of water below a grassy bank, two big trucks parked outside a warehouse above it.

A straight drainage channel running between a freshly cut bank and tall grasses, under a sky streaked with white cloud.

Pumpkins in orange, white, pink and green heaped on wooden crates beside a pot of sunflowers, with corn stalks propped against a white wall behind them.

Flat harvested fields stretching to a blue wall of mountains, a green farm machine working in the distance and a long line of red shipping containers on a train beyond it.

A yellow sign beside the trail reading Boundary Bay Wildlife Management Area, dedicated to the conservation of native wildlife, plants, fish and their habitats, with a map of the bay.

The wide tidal flats of Boundary Bay glistening at low tide under a blue sky, distant islands low on the horizon and brambles in the foreground.

The bay at low tide stretching away to a dark wooded headland, pale water and wet mud beyond a tangle of brambles.

A close view of a shiny orange ladybug resting on a cluster of dry brown seed heads in bright sun.

Two pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers among dark leaves and dry stems beside a speckled granite boulder.

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A shallow tidal pool on the bay dotted with ducks, a heron standing on the bank at the left, a weathered log in the foreground and a wooded headland far off.

Five ducks swimming together across calm blue water, with many more resting on the mud flats behind them.

A green tractor pulling a red harvester across a bare field, farm buildings and a blue mountain range beyond under a clear sky.

Purple asters in the foreground and the bay at low tide beyond them, a wooded headland across the water.

A flock of birds lifting off the glittering water of the bay, the hills of a large island blue on the horizon and asters in the salt meadow in front.

A great flock of birds in flight across a pale sky above the shining bay, two small islands on the horizon.

Small yellow dandelion-like flowers and a round seed head leaning across a concrete barrier, their shadows sharp in the sun.

Mount Baker, white with snow, rising above the wooded far shore of the bay, a salt meadow in the foreground.

The edge of a wooden bench on the trail with a brass-lettered plaque, partly out of the frame, beginning with the name Don Moore, above sunlit gravel.

A huge bleached driftwood log lying in the dry salt marsh, the bay and a wooded headland beyond.

Mount Baker small and white on the far horizon beyond a wide green salt meadow and a stranded log, a wooded point at the left.

A still pond edged with lawn and planted borders, a few ducks on the water and a modern building with glass railings and palms behind it.

Mount Baker, snow-covered and crisp against a clear sky, rising above the low far shore of the bay, a dark band of salt marsh and pale grasses in front.

Two riders crossing the wet sand of the bay at low tide, a man in a white shirt on a brown horse and a woman in a light blue shirt on a black horse, the far shore behind them.

A single pink cosmos flower glowing in low sunlight among feathery green leaves.

Distance walked: 8.7 miles

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