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.
13 year old Magnus Manson has been declared the winner of the Sunshine Coast Mountain Bike Film Competition after intense online voting and the final vote cast by extreme freeride photographer Bjorn Enga. Magnus has won $1000 of bike/camera gear, and will have his film shown on Sunshine TV Network screens in Vancouver, Sunshine Coast, [...]
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.
Woo-hoo… it’s here! WinterFest on Dakota Ridge, beginning at 10am March 10, 2012. The snow has been wonderful this season, with a base of 195 cm and it is snowing lightly as of noon Friday (today). Schedule: available on Alpha web site Highlights include product demos and tryouts, 5 & 10km ski races, introductions to [...]
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 [...]
Every time I get an email, Facebook message, or calendar event posting request, I am reminded of how lucky the Sunshine Coast is to have attracted – and retained for almost 4 years now – Kimiko Hawkes as the Manager & Curator. Kimiko seems to have boundless energy, and a contagious enthusiasm for history, culture [...]
There’s something magical about getting lost in the woods. In an era of gps, constant cell access, and reductive subdivision mentality in Canadian civic planning, it’s getting increasingly harder to even get lost close to home. Carless for a day, I decided to walk home and tried a new trail I hadn’t even noticed on [...]
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell SNOW>>> Yes, we’re still waiting for the *real snow* of winter to arrive! But fear not, lovers of the stuff that gets down the back of your neck & the best face wash in the Western hemisphere… only 10-45 minutes away (depends on departure point) is tons of fresh, luscious snow [...]
Storm season on the Sunshine Coast is one of my favourite times of year for coastal living. Trees whip and sway, branches fly sideways, snowy rain blows at a 45 degree angle, the southeasterly gale creates monster storm surges that combine with winter’s higher tides for truly dramatic scenes of nature’s strength. My friend Marshall [...]
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 [...]
by Jamie Mani, Alpha Adventures Outdoor Adventure Store The term getting “on the water” has taken a whole new meaning with growth a new water sport - Stand Up Paddle Boarding. This intriguing new paddle sport can trace its roots back to the Hawaiian Islands. In the 1960’s the “beach boy” surf instructors of Waikiki [...]
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 [...]
UPDATE: FESTIVAL RACE ROUTES AND PHOTOS: by Publisher/Editor Laurie McConnell Read my introduction to paddleboarding here Actually getting vertical on a paddleboard was VERY different from paddling on my knees or butt. On the good side, once I got going I created a little wake that sounded delicious rising up under the back of the [...]
So, this is me, Laurie McConnell, blissfully unaware of my fate on my very first paddleboard tryout with Wilson Creek’s Alpha Adventures (The Outdoor Adventure Store). BACKGROUNDER Before I share the festival information with you, I’d like to tell you my first paddleboarding story, in the hopes some other coach potato will rise up from [...]
Image from the Gallery Archives at www.seacavalcade.ca What a weekend this July 22-24 on the Sunshine Coast. SATURDAY 9-10AM The annual Sea Cavalcade, a beloved favorite among the Coast’s summer festivals, begins Saturday morning with, of all things, the ‘largest outdoor yoga class on the Sunshine Coast’ and then promptly heads into intense action for [...]
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell. Photo of Pam & John courtesy of Gardar Gardarsson of The Local Newspaper So here’s my goal for this year – to renew my boating education on all fronts. Suncoast Sailcruise will play an integral part. I have sailed before – 20 years ago I occasionally crewed on a 26 foot [...]
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