Category: Sunshine Coast

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.

Secret Bay, in Skookumchuck Narrows, is worth returning to again and again, but it might be a good idea to keep that to ourselves.

A snug anchorage off Blind Bay on the Sunshine Coast, Ballet Bay is a wonderful spot to take stock of past endeavours and renew old friendships.