The north end of the Halfmoon Bay plan area, where every lot is on its own drilled well and the build-out is still in progress.
Where Wood Bay sits, and the other places we attend
around Halfmoon Bay. Every name on the map is a link.
The north end of Electoral Area B
Wood Bay is on the west side of the Sechelt Peninsula north of Secret Cove. BC Geographical Names carries it as a Bay, status adopted and official, with a decision date of 2 June 1955 on map sheet 92G/12. It is the northern boundary of two administrative areas at once. The Halfmoon Bay official community plan names Wood Bay as the northern end of the ground it covers (page 3), and the Sunshine Coast Regional District gives the same point as the top of Electoral Area B.
The shoreline properties from Secret Cove through to Wood Bay are Residential C under the plan, with a minimum parcel of 8,000 square metres (page 19). The inland ground rises behind them. From the Wood Bay Ridge Road area the drive to Sechelt Hospital is roughly 21 to 23 kilometres, and the RCMP detachment on Teredo Street is about two minutes beyond that.
Electoral Area B as a whole had a population of 2,969 at the 2021 census, up 8.9 per cent on 2016, in 1,370 occupied private dwellings spread over 1,271 square kilometres. Of the 1,859 dwellings counted in the area, 489 had nobody living in them as usual residents. Wood Bay is at the far end of that area from the hospital, the detachment and the shops.
Wood Bay Heights is a subdivision still being built
The named roads are Wood Bay Heights Road, with documented addresses at 10664, 10677, 10710 and 10750, and Wood Bay Ridge Road. As of the most recent disclosure amendment in April 2025, phase two was still selling: ocean-view acreages numbered lots 33 to 40, ranging from 2.47 to 4.17 acres, marketed through Manley York and Associates with Sotheby's International Realty. A house at 10710 Wood Bay Heights Road was listed at $3.5 million in 2025 coverage.
A phased subdivision produces a particular pattern along a road, and it is the pattern that matters for anyone leaving a house here empty. Occupied houses, finished houses with nobody in them yet, houses part way through construction and bare lots sit next to one another. There is no settled rhythm of neighbours for an unfamiliar vehicle to stand out against, and a truck parked at a building site at night looks like every other truck parked at a building site.
Every lot here draws its own water
The developer states that the Wood Bay Heights lots it offered were serviced with drilled wells producing clean potable water for site development, with hydro brought to the lot lines. Easements across the lots carry power, telephone, cable and wastewater. A registered building scheme applies, and health covenants and geotechnical reports are on file.
None of that includes a water main, and nothing in the area is on one. The community plan puts the limit of the regional district's Chapman system at Mercer Road, well to the south, and says properties beyond the service area rely on independently operated wells and water licences (page 45). Every house at Wood Bay therefore depends on an electric pump. A power cut stops the pump. A split line downstream of it runs the pump until something else fails. Nobody sends a bill that would show either.
In September 2025 the fire was on the road above the lots
A wildfire was reported on the Wood Bay forest service road on 13 September 2025. It measured 2.3 hectares when found and 6.3 hectares within a day, and was suspected to have been caused by humans. Four initial-attack crews, ten firefighters and a helicopter worked on it through to 17 September. The BC Wildfire Service described the ground it was burning in:
dense forest, which can complicate ground access
BC Wildfire Service, on the Wood Bay forest service road fire, September 2025
Reporting counted it as the fourth wildfire of that year on the forest service road above the highway between Secret Cove and Madeira Park. No evacuation alert or order was issued. Halfmoon Bay appears in the regional district's wildfire protection plan as one of the Coast communities rated high risk, and that same plan records that Area B's community plan contains no objectives or policies for managing the hazard.
What a check at Wood Bay covers
The drilled well head, the pump, the pressure tank and the pump house, including its heat source in winter
A tap run at the house to confirm pressure, and the pump breaker after any outage
Heat on and holding, or the system drained down and the well pump isolated
The septic field and tank lid, and any wet ground over the easement runs
Doors, windows, garage and any site trailer or materials left on a part-built lot
Construction hoarding, scaffolding and loose sheeting after a southeast blow
Forest fuel within ten metres of the walls, given the fires on the forest service road above
The gravel or unsealed section of driveway for washout after heavy rain
A photographed record of the whole list, dated and filed that day
Insurance wordings for an unoccupied house nearly always set a maximum interval for inspection during the heating season, four consecutive days being the figure most commonly written in, and require the person doing it to be competent, unless the water has been shut off and the plumbing drained. Read the clause in your own policy before you decide on a schedule.
What it costs
A scheduled check at Wood Bay 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.
