Sunshine Coast photos – BC’s Sunshine Coast in pictures and videos. From Langdale to Lund.
When I first moved to the Sunshine Coast 26 years ago as a production assistant in one of the community newspapers (while my roommate worked as a reporter for the other – our shared domicile was a thorn in the side of both bombastic publishers at the time) I can remember meeting up with all [...]
April 27 & 28 saw approximately 250 riders hit the trails in Roberts Creek for the SunCoaster Mountain Bike Race and Mach Chicken downhill. Suncoaster Race Results | Mach Chicken Race Results Map courtesy of http://sunshinecoaster.net/ I was not surprised to see Magnus Manson take the 15-16 yr old male age category – Magnus is a [...]
My favorite moments on the Sunshine Coast from 2012 in pictures… Happy New Year!
Sunday September 16 found my partner Diane and I looking for a place to put in for a leisurely kayak and some marine level photography. We checked out our favorite spot by the Trail Islands but the wind was kicking up and the drift is fairly fast for photos there unless it’s calm – partly [...]
Figwort family. Lanceolate leaves. Dioecious (occasionally hermaphrodite or trioecious). Wikipedia can make anything sound sexy, can’t it? Another thing hard to believe about the Butterfly Bush is that the government of BC classifies the plant as ‘invasive‘, noting it has ‘escaped cultivation’ in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, Europe & North America. It is listed as a noxious weed in Oregon [...]
That’s right! Tomorrow is your chance to get out on the water for some standup paddleboard demos, beginner and advanced paddle stroke clinics… and you can even enter a short or long course race and test your mettle against other Sunshine Coast paddleboard enthusiasts. Demos are $5, and race entry fees are $15. All funds [...]
If you’re doing the bumper-to-bumper thing today getting into or leaving Sechelt and getting bottlenecked by double construction at Teredo and managed to get over to the Sechelt Elementary Grounds you were no likely astounded by the mushrooming of a tent colony on the school fields. Not to worry – it’s just the BC Bike [...]
April 14 is a Benefit Concert to Raise Awareness of Mt Elphinstone’s Forests, showcasing hundreds of photographs, with live music to be held Saturday, April 14, 7:30 pm at Roberts Creek Community Hall.
I first met Peggy Collins at the Sechelt Farmer’s Market, in its previous location at the Ravens Cry Theatre. She had a table up towards the high end, covered with photo cards from one end to the other that were a hot spot of interest among the booths. If you have ever seen Peggy’s iconic [...]
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 [...]
One of the great things about camera technology and software is that it puts the power of stunning imagery into the hands of people who may not be professional photographers but make up for it by regularly taking pictures and often of a certain type… Gigi Butterfly, an artist from Halfmoon Bay, very consistently, posts [...]
What a fantastic image to keep in my mind as we head into 2012 on the Sunshine Coast. This image was taken on the powerline trail that links up with Hidden Grove Park and the Sechelt Heritage Forest in Sandy Hook, on the afternoon of December 31, 2011. May our beloved Sunshine Coast retain its [...]
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 [...]
by Laurie McConnell, Editor/Publisher Sunshine Coast artist Jan Poynter has organized a wonderful event in Gibsons for this coming weekend, September 9 through 11th: the first ever Plein Air Paint Out event in Gibsons Landing, joining an international stage to demonstrate the art of painting outdoors. Last year Diane (my spouse) and I were travelling [...]
by Publisher/Editor Laurie McConnell All Photos & Video copyright Matthew Lane, 2011 Wow – the entrance to Chapman Creek is the place to be on the Sunshine Coast for great salmon fishing! The big rains have held off so the schools of salmon – pinks, coho (that’s right, COHO), and springs are holding up along [...]