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 [...]
Photo Laurie McConnell The racers are back! The 11th Annual International Howe Sound Outrigger Race comes back to Gibsons Landing and Gibsons Harbour this weekend, with entrants beginning to trickle in mid-week for practice time and course construction. If you are planning on dining out on Friday or Saturday night, call to make reservations as [...]
SECHELT FARMER & ARTISAN MARKET FUN Our friend Dean Brooks (we call him MathGuy as he is a prodigious intellect in this field) is up visiting for the weekend, on his first holiday in seven years. We decided he needed a REAL getaway, so we’ve been getting him out doing things ever since we got [...]
Tzoonie Wilderness Camp is a boat or floatplane access only resort located in Narrows Inlet, the second fjord up Sechelt Inlet. Art & Aleta Giroux have been running this resort for over 20 years, sharing some of the most beautiful of BC’s coastline in a remote wilderness setting. Campers stay in rustic but comfortable cabins, [...]
From a Sunshine Coast guest… We were running out of gas when we got off the ferry near the little town of Egmont,B.C. on the Sechelt peninsula. The only gas pump was closed for the night, and we had broken our own rule of never looking for a room after 6 p.m. The owner of [...]
Wow. We just got back from four days at Bird Point Retreat up Sechelt Inlet, and I can’t believe – as the designer of their web site at http://www.birdpointretreat.com – that we didn’t go for a longer amount of time, given that I actually typed out the sentence: “Everyone wishes they had booked a [...]