Category: Sunshine Coast

itting in Smuggler Cove, basking in the otherworldly stillness of the early season, I went online to see what we had written about it in a previous blog. Surely we had glorified it, gone...

Sometimes we forget that our coast, on the Salish Sea and beyond, provides some of the most captivating, most alive and most beautiful cruising on earth.

The Sunshine Coast is more than just a pitstop on the way north to Desolation Sound and beyond, with many excellent anchorages and inlets where you can spend weeks exploring.

There’s almost nothing about Princess Louisa Inlet that hasn’t already been said, and said so poetically, but maybe we can offer a couple tips to those who are first-timers without flowery prose.

This peaceful anchorage across from the popular Harmony Islands Marine Park is a getaway for those who like to sometimes do nothing.

Whatever your feelings about Hornby Island, a trek into its high country will forever change your impressions.

Hornby Island is known, in a good way, to many for its aging hippies and chill atmosphere, but when conditions are right the tranquility of Tribune Bay and hiking ashore are hard to top.

There is decent protection from southeasterly winds in the northeast corner of Halfmoon Bay, but don’t blindly put your safety in the hands of electronic charts as we foolishly did.

Texada Island has few residents, and fewer visitors, and an undeserved reputation for odd characters. It might have the highest per capital population of artists in the nation.

Francis Point, near Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast, is delicate. Human footsteps act like battering rams on the ecology of this tiny, undeveloped provincial park.