Rural Routes - Gabriola / Descanso Bay / Gabriola Island / Orlebar Point

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470 South Rd
Gabriola, British Columbia
V0R 1X0

British Columbia Tourism Region : Vancouver Island

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Spanish for 'rest' or 'ease.' Galiano and Valdes left a record of how they came to give this name in June 1792 to this haven on Gabriola Island:
'We called this roadstead 'Cala del Descanso' from our need of rest and our appreciation in finding it on this occasion.'
Gabriola Island - Henry Wagner maintains --- in his authoritative Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America (2:389) —
that the name originally given by the Spaniards in 1791 to the southeastern part of this island was Punta de Gaviota (Cape Seagull) but that this was corrupted first into Gaviola by the Spaniards themselves and then into Gabriola.
Orlebar Point - After Lieutenant V.B. Orlebar, RN, who commanded the gunboat Rocket on this coast from 1875 to 1882.
With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.

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Attractions:	Gabriola Sands Park, 3km Sandwell Park, 3km Harmac, 4km Nanaimo River 4, 6km Cedar, 6km Nanaimo River 3, 5km Nanaimo River 2, 7km Hemer Park, 8km Chase River / Extension / Gallows Point, 7km Morden Colliery Historic Park, 9km South Wellington, 8km Nanaimo Town 1, 6km Cedar Land District, 9km Petroglyph Park, 7km Newcastle, 6km Starks, 8km Newcastle Island Marine Park, 7km	Cranberry Land District, 9km Stockett, 8km Hudson Rocks Ecological Reserve, 8km Cinnabar Valley, 9km Boat Harbour, 10km Departure Bay, 9km Cassidy / McKay Peak, 14km Roberts Memorial Park, 13km Extension, 11km Yellowpoint Bog Ecological Reserve, 14km Northfield, 10km Gabriola Island 5, 10km Ma-Guala 6, 11km Pirates Cove Marine Park, 12km Woodley Range Ecological Reserve, 16km Wakes Cove Park, 12km Oyster Bay 12, 17km	Drumbeg Park, 12km East Wellington, 12km Bright Land District, 18km Mountain Land District, 13km Ladysmith, 20km Oyster Land District, 20km Chemainus 13, 20km Whaleboat Island Marine Park, 16km Lyacksun 3, 15km Wellington Land District, 14km Wellington, 15km Douglas Land District, 17km Saltair, 25km Shingle Point 4, 21km Thetis Island, 24km Rose Islets Ecological Reserve, 23km
Nearby Lakes and Mountains:	Hoggan Lake, 3km York Lake, 7km Holden Lake, 8km Greenway Lake, 10km Beck Lake, 10km Richard Lake, 10km Quennell Lake, 12km Harewood Lake, 11km Stark Lakes, 12km Overton Lake, 11km Long Lake, 14km Myles Lake, 12km Blind Lake, 12km Michael Lake, 15km Priest Lake, 14km Cathers Lake, 11km Whisky Lake, 13km	Lost Lake, 12km Westwood Lake, 11km Timberland Lake, 16km McKay Lake, 15km Crystal Lake, 16km Mount Hayes, 18km Diver Lake, 13km Long Lake, 13km Heart Lake, 22km Stanton Peak, 23km Mount Benson, 15km Stocking Lake, 24km Brannen Lake, 16km Coronation Lake, 23km Lucid Lake, 16km Green Lake, 17km Holland Lake, 25km	Barsby Lake, 18km Mount Hall, 28km Coronation Mountain, 28km Silver Lake, 29km Brenton Lakes, 29km Mount Brenton, 30km Holyoak Lake, 30km Chemainus Lake, 29km McKay Peak, 24km Buffalo Hump, 24km Fuller Lake, 31km Round Lake, 22km Boomerang Lake, 22km Cottle Lake, 23km Kidney Lake, 23km Rheinhart Lake, 29km

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