Category: Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

Sunshine Coast Restaurants Invite Winter Diners
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Sunshine Coast Restaurants Invite Winter Diners

Posted By on Dec 06, 2011 in EAT & SHOP, FEATURED, Sechelt, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour, Uncategorized

The Restaurant at Painted Boat The Sunshine Coast has a diversity of restaurants and eateries compared to our description of being a ‘rural’ community. It’s one of the things Coasties – and guests – say they appreciate most, especially in the shoulder and off-season. It’s also true that off-peak months are a challenge for restaurants [...]

Sunshine Coast Two-Festival Day: Apples & Shrooms
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Sunshine Coast Two-Festival Day: Apples & Shrooms

Posted By on Oct 17, 2011 in EAT & SHOP, PHOTOS, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour, Uncategorized, VIDEOS

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 [...]

Sunshine Coast Weekend Lineup Oct. 15/16
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Sunshine Coast Weekend Lineup Oct. 15/16

Posted By on Oct 14, 2011 in Events Calendar, Halfmoon Bay, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

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 [...]

Get Your Stink On This Weekend!
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Get Your Stink On This Weekend!

Posted By on Aug 17, 2011 in EVENTS, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

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 [...]

Pender Harbour Blues Festival 2011
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Pender Harbour Blues Festival 2011

Posted By on May 13, 2011 in Events Calendar, Festivals, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour, VIDEOS

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 [...]

Sunshine Coast Mushroom Festival This October!
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Sunshine Coast Mushroom Festival This October!

Posted By on Sep 17, 2010 in EAT & SHOP, Ecology, EVENTS, Festivals, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

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 [...]

2010 Pender Harbour Jazz Festival – Sept 17-19, 2010
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2010 Pender Harbour Jazz Festival – Sept 17-19, 2010

Posted By on Sep 14, 2010 in Arts & Culture, EVENTS, Events Calendar, Festivals, Getaways & Specials, PHOTOS, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour, Uncategorized

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 [...]

Sunshine Coast Resort: Weddings on the ‘northern Riviera’
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Sunshine Coast Resort: Weddings on the ‘northern Riviera’

Posted By on Aug 16, 2010 in Cottages, FEATURED, Fishing, Gay & Lesbian, Getaways & Specials, Hotels, Motels & Inns, Kid Friendly, Marinas, Recreation, Resorts, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour, STAY, Vacation Rentals, Waterfront Stays

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 [...]

Rack of Lamb, The Restaurant at Painted Boat
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The Restaurant at Painted Boat gets rave review

Posted By on Jun 10, 2010 in Cottages, EAT & SHOP, Marinas, Resorts, Retreats & Groups, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour, Spas, Waterfront Stays

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 [...]

May Day in Pender Harbour!
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May Day in Pender Harbour!

Posted By on May 23, 2010 in EVENTS, Longboarding, PHOTOS, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

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 [...]

Pender & jazz just go together, don't they?
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Pender & jazz just go together, don't they?

Posted By on Sep 14, 2009 in Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

It’s that time of year again, when the leaves turn and begin to fall, us locals get out the brooms to stem the tide, or put on the hiking boots and go hunting for chanterelles and pine mushrooms… and the annual Jazz Festival comes to Pender Harbour. This year’s event marks the 13th Annual presentation [...]

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Live from Garden Bay: Pender Blues Fest

Posted By on Jun 07, 2009 in Arts & Culture, EVENTS, Festivals, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

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 [...]

Moon Dance: The One Night Vacation That Changed My Life
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Moon Dance: The One Night Vacation That Changed My Life

Posted By on Mar 31, 2009 in Cottages, Gay & Lesbian, Getaways & Specials, Kid Friendly, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

PENDER HARBOUR – Has it ever happened to you, that you’ve begun something that seems so innocent and devoid of ulterior motive, and you find instead that your life has been changed in some deeply profound way? That’s what happened to me at The Perch at Moon Dance Cabin. My partner D. & I wanted [...]

April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge, Pender’s Rite of Spring
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April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge, Pender’s Rite of Spring

Posted By on Mar 14, 2009 in EVENTS, Events Calendar, Festivals, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour

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 [...]

Can you believe this view from your room at Sakinaw Lake Lodge?
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Fabulous spring vacation awaits at Sakinaw Lake Lodge

Posted By on Mar 10, 2009 in Bed & Breakfasts, Boat Tours & Cruises, Cottages, Gay & Lesbian, Getaways & Specials, Kid Friendly, Pet Friendly, Resorts, Retreats & Groups, Secret Cove/Pender Harbour, Vacation Rentals, Waterfront Stays

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 [...]

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