Plan your Sunshine Coast adventures. Cultural activities, recreation from leisurely walks to over-the-top mountain biking and kayaking, and a wide variety of sightseeing tours and venues.
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 [...]
My very own Piasta 3-String CigarBox Guitar with dual pickups My friend David Piasta makes musical instruments in Wilson Creek. Cigar-box guitars, dulcitars, drums, and just plain instruments of strangeness that are as captivating as they are different. Some have necks made of wood from pallets. Others are fully formed from old church pews or [...]
Thinking of hiking the Skookumchuck in January or February? The gals at the Sechelt Visitor Centre are just getting the 2013 best viewing times together, but they know there’s always the hardy types wanting to see this impressive tidal surge during the winter, when some of the highest tides and ranges make for some of [...]
It’s Sunshine Coast Arts Crawl Weekend… and the ShroomFest… and Sechelt Arts Festival – time to break out the rubber boots and get out and about on the Sunshine Coast.
The Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives is proud to announce the launch of Time Travel Sunshine Coast, a heritage smart phone walking tour that allows users to explore the fascinating histories of the Sunshine Coast on their mobile phones. The tour will be launched and available for download on Friday, October 12th, 2012. Funded by [...]
This weekend dozens of Volkswagen Westfalias, Buses, Weekenders, Rialtas, and VW Camper Fans will make their way to the Cross Road Grill RV Park in Pender Harbour (13518 Highway 101) for ‘Buses at the Crossroads 1st Annual Camp Out’. Taking advantage of smaller ferry lineups and shoulder season travel, these v-dubbers are coming up at [...]
Above is the Bigpacific.com Mushroom Playlist, a collection of short videos that includes a story I wrote about last year’s festival and foray with Larry Davis, including a fairly decent clip of some mushroom identification, as well as a chanterelle identification from another picker’s Langdale foray – but don’t use it as identification yourself. Always [...]
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 [...]
by Diane Mueller Ami McKay, author of The Birth House and The Virgin Cure, walked on stage in the wooded open-air pavilion at the Sunshine Coast Festival of Written Arts and looked out onto a lecture hall filled with mostly 50 and up female readers and writers, instantly connecting with us as soon as she [...]
Northwords Documentary, 50 minutes FilmCan npp films inc. film+NEWmedia Film Trailer on Vimeo Writer Noah Richler summed up the sentiments best after the screening of the film ‘Northwords’ last night at the Rockwood Pavilion just ahead of the 30th Annual Festival of the Written Arts, and I paraphrase: Aboriginal Studies should be a mandatory requirement [...]
New Voices introduces authors Robyn Michele Levy and Kim Clark at the Sunshine Coast 30th Annual Festival of the Written Arts August 16-19, 2012
Here they come, 10 of the most action-packed days on the Sunshine Coast – right up to Powell River – with festivals and events ranging from agriculture to vehicles and everything in between. If you can’t find something to do over the next two weeks, please head to the nearest hospital for a pulse check.
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 [...]