Earth Day on BC’s Sunshine Coast
What a day! My girls and I spent the day exploring the Coast again, this time heading to Roberts Creek for the annual Earth Day Celebrations down at the park & mandala. Fabulous food (oh, the chocolate cake!), fresh produce, jewelery, crafts and a ton of informational booths, topped off with live performances under the canopy at the mandala made for a very well-attended and fun event.
Check out the videos here:
Hula Hooping at Earth Day in Roberts Creek from Laurie McConnell
and this performance from the mandala:
After meeting up with friends Duane Burnett of The Local Newspaper and Heather Till of The Coast Reporter and a few other pals, and checking out all the booths – see all the photos at photos.bigpacific.com – we continued towards Gibsons where we’d heard there was some kind of event happening at Deer Crossing Art Farm. Well, it turns out we missed it, but in finding a place to walk our goofy 1 year old mutt we discovered Elphinstone Crossing, a new subdivision at the end of Storvold Road in Port Mellon, just off the Port Mellon Highway. What vistas! Of course it rains here a lot, but the open valley and views of mountains at Whistler, Gambier Island, Georgia Strait and the majestic peak of Mount Baker make it a fantastic location. 4.3 acre lots mean the preservation of the quality of life and wilderness-like setting. I just could not get over the view and took a panorama video in high def here:
Elphinstone Crossing Panorama from Laurie McConnell at Bigpacific.com.
To top it all off, I came home and created a new 3 minute video for the Coast with over 50 fabulous images, and put it up on Animoto and You Tube for you. It’s got full size high-def visuals, so please be patient while it’s loading:
I hope YOUR Earth Day weekend was as good or better than mine!
