The road from the village to the Sechelt side. Its Flume Creek culvert failed in November 2021 and was not permanently repaired until October 2025.
Where Beach Avenue sits, and the other places we attend
around Roberts Creek. Every name on the map is a link.
Ten segments, 3,289 metres, and 175 of them unpaved
Beach Avenue leaves the village junction at 49.42065, -123.64215 and runs north-west along the shoreline bench to 49.43467, -123.67873. A 12 September 2026 pull from the BC Digital Road Atlas gives 10 segments totalling 3,289 metres. All but one are paved. The exception is a 175-metre stretch recorded as loose surface at the far north-west end, so the road gives up its pavement only where it runs out. Flume Road meets it at 49.43012, -123.66599.
Official Community Plan Bylaw 641 names Beach Avenue the connection toward Sechelt, the counterpart to Lower Road running the other way. Both sit below the Sunshine Coast Highway, which section 13 of the same bylaw sets as the edge of the regional water service area. Beach Avenue properties therefore have a Chapman main in front of them and a meter at the lot line. The regional district's June 2026 fire flow programme, however, lists low flow in the area around the elementary school and Roberts Creek Park as a priority for new mains. A main in the ground and a usable fire flow are two separate questions on this side of Roberts Creek.
Twenty-nine minutes on the morning of 28 July 2024
The page for the Beach Avenue house fire went out at 8:54 a.m. on Sunday 28 July 2024. The first firefighter reached the property at 9:01. Both department engines were on scene by 9:15. The flames were knocked down at 9:23. Eleven Roberts Creek firefighters attended, Chief Pat Higgins plus ten, with seven from Gibsons and District. The owner, Tim Wakaruk, was in Whistler. Damage was recorded as primarily surface burns on the exterior, with the fire just starting to make its way into a bedroom when it was stopped.
It sounded like fireworks out on Beach Avenue and so it was kind of hard to miss.
Fire Chief Pat Higgins, Coast Reporter, 28 July 2024
Two details in that account are worth an absent owner's attention. The published report mentions no hydrant and no water tender. And the twenty-nine minutes between the page and the knockdown began only because somebody nearby was awake and looking at the right roof.
The culvert at Flume Creek was temporary for close to four years
The province's 2021 flood recovery programme for the Sunshine Coast lists a Flume Creek project made up of two structures, the Margaret Road culvert and the Beach Avenue culvert. Permanent repair work started in summer 2024 and was recorded as completed in October 2025. The failure that caused it happened during the atmospheric river of November 2021, which means the crossing carried traffic on interim works for the better part of four years.
On 25 November 2021 Beach Avenue was down to a single lane, as were Day Road and Flume Road. Residents on this road used the provincial campground as their way out while the road was compromised. Roberts Creek Park is the landmark at the top of the Flume Road corridor, and in that month it was also the exit.
A boat went from the 3400 block and came back stripped
In July 2022 a boat was taken overnight from its mooring in the 3400 block of Beach Avenue. It was found nearby with its Honda 15 horsepower motor gone, along with the oars and the rod holders. Nothing about that requires a house to be entered. It requires only that a moored boat belonging to somebody who is not there be left alone long enough.
The police response comes from Sechelt, 11.8 kilometres and about fifteen minutes from the fire hall at 1302 Roberts Creek Road. Sechelt Fire is also the mutual aid department that arrives from this end of Roberts Creek, with Gibsons and District covering the other. An overnight theft from a mooring on this road is discovered by whoever next walks down to the water, and on a seasonal property that can be months.
What a check on Beach Avenue covers
The boat, the mooring, the trailer and the outboard, photographed where they sit, after the 2022 theft from this block
Doors, windows and outbuilding locks tried by hand rather than viewed from the driveway
The BC Hydro service mast and the line where it enters the wall, plus any branch overhanging it
Heat on and holding, or the water shut off at the meter and the lines blown down clear
The driveway culvert and the creek crossings either side of the property after heavy rain
The water meter reading, and standing water or soft ground above the service line
Brush and cut vegetation stacked near the house, which can only be burned legally in two short windows a year
Gutters, roof needles and moss on a shoreline lot exposed to salt and southeasterlies
Every item above photographed and dated, with the report sent to you the same day
Home policies almost always limit how long a dwelling can stand unoccupied without being entered. The usual requirement is an inspection by someone competent at the intervals the policy sets during the heating season, often no further apart than four days, with draining and shutting off the supply as the alternative. Terms differ from insurer to insurer, so the wording that matters is the one in your own document.
What it costs
A scheduled check at Beach Avenue is
$55 a visit, plus
$10 travel. The travel charge is the same
everywhere between Gibsons and Egmont. There is no minimum term and no joining fee.
See the full price list.
Where these facts come from
Every figure, date and quotation on this page was taken from one of these. They are
listed so you can read them yourself.
