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West Coast Waterfront Home For Sale
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A West Coast Waterfront Paradise! Nestled on 2.54 private acres is this quintessential West Coast waterfront home in Cherry Point. Featuring lofted ceilings throughout the home designed to take in natural light and exposing ocean views from almost every window in the home.To accommodate guests and entertaining; a new kitchen, 2 family rooms conveniently connected to over 1500sq ft of Kitchen decks, along with 4/5 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms. Downstairs features a waterside gym & lounge with walkouts to acovered waterfront patio. Plenty of parking with a covered carport with separate upstairs storage & sheltered walkways to the front door. Fully landscaped with terraces, mature shrubs & trees with meandering paths to the lowbank beach where you can beachcomb on your Cowichan Bay waterfront home, set your crabtraps and enjoy the abundant marine life that passes by. Protected moorage next door is available at Cherry Point Marina. Great shopping 5 min away in the Cowichan Bay Village. See website for info on upgrades & more!
The property
The first thing a person notices as they enter the waterfront home is the long curved driveway sloping downhill to the house. The drive takes you along the edge of a beautiful rain forest in a valley on the left. At the bottom of the valley is a small creek that flows out onto a beach on the shores of Cowichan Bay.waterfront Property
The waterfront property is 1.03 ha in size with a large west coast style residence. The grounds were extensively landscaped in the mid 1970s and the trees and shrubs have matured beautifully over the years. There are a number of landscaped terraces carved into property providing several level grassy spaces. The edges of the terraces and the beach front have been solidly reinforced with the installation of large boulders to prevent slumping and erosion along the beach. The firepit on the lower terrace, looking out over the ocean is a favourite spot for evening drinks during the Cowichan Bay summer.
Privacy & views
The size and orientation of the waterfront property for sale provides a particularly private, quiet and scenic setting. We love the views directly across Cowichan bay to Genoa Bay and Separation Point and to the east the southern tip of Salt Spring Island. From any of the decks on the house a person can watch all the activity going on in the Bay … fishing boats, sailing regattas, whale watching boats and large yachts passing by. A favourite feature of the house is the covered patio on the lowest level. This patio provides a fabulous all-weather place to sit and watch the ocean and stars during the evening. With the patio heaters this deck can be used all year long in any types of weather. We call it the “scotch and cigar deck”.
The house
The house, according to the owners who resided here from 1978 to 2010, was originally designed not by an Architect but by a Danish draftsman who created a supreme marriage between a beautifully functioning house and a fabulous oceanside view lot. We love the layout of the house which permits ocean views from every room and almost every spot in the house. We love the clear cedar planking used extensively in the vaulted ceilings of the great rooms, the dining room, kitchen and bedrooms.
The house has a heat pump that is exceptionally efficient at keeping the house at a constant temperature all year long. A new septic system was installed in 2015. We intentionally had this system over designed so that it would provide sufficient capacity to accommodate both the ongoing needs of a 6 bedroom house as well as additional periodic demands from a number of multi-person entertaining functions.
Not too far off the beach is a kelp bed and is a favourite habitat for migrating salmon and a robust local crab population. It is easy to fish for salmon right off the beach or to row out 100 ft off the beach and drop crab traps. The numerous crab traps set by others in this area is clear evidence that the area is a prolific crab fishing spot and very much favoured by many of the locals. Dungeness and Red Rock crab are available in an apparent unlimited supply.
Cowichan Bay Waterfront home for Sale | StephenFoster.ca
West Coast Waterfront Home For Sale
Waterfront Living