Did you know there was a place on the Sunshine Coast where your dogs can take you for a holiday? Bluff Hollow Bed & Breakfast in Garden Bay is a truly dog-friendly getaway: the entire property, cottage, and main house are all off-leash zones, with amenities every discerning dog will sniff out. They can swim [...]
The Halfmoon Bay Apple Festival always comes as a surprise – like most Halfmoon Bay events, there’s an element of whimsy that translates into never quite knowing when events are going to be happening until about a week before. We stopped in at the Apple Fest in between our mushroom foray and the identification session [...]
For a ‘shoulder season’ weekend on the Sunshine Coast there sure is a lot going on! We are stoked for a couple of foodie/outdoorsy events! For anyone who loves apples, the Halfmoon Bay Apple Festival is a good old-fashioned country event held in the beautiful seaside Cooper’s Green park named for a RCAF bomber pilot [...]
2nd Annual Pender Harbour Garlic Festival Aug. 20 & 21 After a highly successful inaugural festival last August, the Pender Habour Lions Club is back this year but at double the vendors and musicians! It’s always exciting getting a new event off the ground and Bigpacific.com was proud to be a vendor last year with [...]
Blues fans mark off the first weekend in June for the 8th annual Pender Harbour Blues Festival. June 3, 4, 5 – a weekend full of the blues served up just the way you like it. Johnny Ferreira, rock and roll sax star, with the sensational Nadine States, opens the weekend Friday, June 3, at [...]
The second annual fungi event of the season happens this October 16 & 17, 2010 in Madeira Park, BC and promises to be an entertaining and informative festival for everyone – experienced mushroomers or eager beginners. The second annual Sunshine Coast Mushroom Fest will be bigger and better than the first, with display tables, cooking [...]
Mix great jazz of all styles with small venues on the Sunshine Coast of B.C. and you have the phenomenon that is the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival. First established in 1966 by the local Music Society, the Festival is now an annual destination event for a crowd of jazz lovers from across the Pacific Northwest [...]
The Sunshine Coast Resort, located just around the bend from the Madeira Park exit on Hwy. 101, has always been known as an affordable yet luxurious destination for visitors wanting to immerse themselves in the waterfront lifestyle of our region. With a well-appointed hotel offering oceanfront rooms and suites with private patios, barbecues, beautiful amenities [...]
I ran into Ryan Schmidt, Manager of The Restaurant at Painted Boat, at a recent gathering of businesses and individuals working on the expanding ‘Meetings & Retreats’ shoulder season initiatives. We chatted about the spring season and he mentioned a great review The Restaurant had just received via The Vancouver Sun newspaper, from an article [...]
You know it’s the May Long Weekend on the Sunshine Coast when the Longboarders descend on Pender Harbour for a wild weekend of Pender May Day celebrations, Longboarder Hockey, and all day racing on Francis Peninsula, and the wonderfully freaky guys and gals head to Crystal Creek for the Annual Faeries and Fools celebration.. Talk [...]
picture live from Garden Bay PENDER HARBOUR – I’m not one who regularly goes out for live music, not liking too-loud anything, crowds, bars… but my friend Mark Vance of the Pender Harbour Blues Festival Society gave me such an energy boost just talking about this year’s festival that I threw inhibition to the wind [...]
8th Annual April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge, Millenium Park Madeira Park April 25th, 2009 Buzzing handsaws and the whine of cordless screw guns will again fill the air in Madeira Park’s Millennium Park on April 25, 2009 between 10AM and 4PM as teams of builders conspire to produce the fastest and most seaworthy craft possible [...]
Spring 2008 The new owners of Sakinaw Lake Lodge are offering some great spring packages. Book any two nights in April or May and receive 40% off their low season rates. Roast some marshmallows around the fire or watch the moonlight glimmering on Sakinaw Lake from the outdoor hot tub. Starting in April, groups of [...]
TOP SECRET: HALFMOON BAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA: For a decadent dose of winter hydrotherapy, add luxurious organic spa products to deep soaker tub in a private Tenthouse suite and simmer. Serves one (or two)! Forego winter malaise with a quick-fix trip to British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast; a paltry 40-minute ferry from Vancouver takes you to [...]