Shirley Farmers Market features about 30 local vendors of all sorts selling home-made and home-grown products. There are also a concession, children's activities and live music (not all weeks).

Open Sundays, 10:30am to 3:30pm, end of May until the end of September.

Greater Victoria's drinking water comes from the Sooke Reservoir, located in the Sooke Hills about 30 km northwest of the City of Victoria. At full storage capacity, Sooke Reservoir holds 20.4 billion litres of water - enough to fill 31 million Olympic-sized pools. CRD Water Services uses multiple barriers to prevent contamination of drinking water. For example, watershed lands are 98% owned by the CRD and there is no public access to, swimming in or boating on the reservoir. There is also a multi-step water disinfection process.

Built in 1912 after a passenger liner crashed into rocks off the coast of Port Renfrew, Sheringham Point Lighthouse, and the families who managed it, became an important handler of emergency calls, often responding to the shipwrecked during storms and acting as a navigational aid to boats on the water. Following the advent and widespread use of GPS technology, the lighthouse fell out of use and is now locked and gated, closed to the public except for distant views.