Prince Rupert's normal colours are pale and washed-out: misty greens and endless shades of grey. This, after all, is a city that sports a store named the Slickers Raingear...
Only 80 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, scenic Sakinaw Lake is prime Sechelt Peninsula cottage country, abuzz with powerboats in summer. A threatened race of salmon also...
We walk the beach searching for blue glass trade beads that wash up on occasion in front of Lax Kw'alaams. All we find are shards of glass and crockery. Still, these are...
Two arms branch off Sechelt Inlet and snake their way into the Coast Mountains just north of Vancouver. Narrows Inlet, the shorter and more intimate of the pair, attracts...
The third weekend in August saw a slew of birthdays celebrated at Garden Bay on the Sunshine Coast. The pioneer mission hospital of St. Mary's, still standing but reincarnated...
Cortes Island makes a fine summer destination, especially for paddlers. Most visitors hang around the southern half of Cortes, which is the prettiest, driest, most populated...
The popularity of ocean kayaking has been a boon for B.C.'s publishers, as well as for its ecotourism outfitters, resort operators, and outdoor-gear manufacturers and...
From the third-floor lounge of Discovery Islands Lodge, we look east across Hoskyn Channel to Read and Maurelle islands. To the north is Surge Narrows provincial marine park,...
In my corner of the country, Coastwise John knows the backwoods and waters as well as anyone. He's the person to call if you want to explore the Caren Range on the Sechelt...
From Schooner Cove, Lyle Montgomery runs us over to the Winchelsea group in his water taxi. As he rounds the buoy just south of the islands, we see the animals, scores of them...
