Leaving Horseshoe Bay on a crack-of-dawn ferry gets us kayaking on Wallace Island Marine Provincial Park by noon. Since my last blog-post from Thetis Island, we’ve wanted to kayak-camp on Wallace. From Nanaimo, it’s an hour’s drive south to Crofton where a group of Cowichan kayakers are headed our way on a daytrip. They lead us […]
Kayaking Thetis Island is made easy from Cedar Beach Ocean Resort , two ferries away from the British Columbia mainland. We arrive at 120 Clam Bay Road on Thetis Island via Departure Bay ferry terminus. We drive south less than an hour to Chemainus for the 33-car-load crossing. A world away. 1. Accessibility Owners, Andy and Virginia […]
Next golf trip, tag along on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake. Not a golfer? Need a day off? “Fore-mi-da-ble,” say French golfeurs. “Par-fait!” Go beyond the greens at Kokanee Springs, a Golf-Advisor top-ten destination resort in British Columbia’s West Kootenays. Director of Sales and Marketing, Ian Wiber says, “In 2015, we introduced the Adventures in […]
Vancouver Skiers’ love letter to Methow Valley, Washington State X-C Ski area near Winthrop, Washington. Five ways we love you. Dear Methow Valley, Your name (so elegant, like The Met, and ‘ow’ like an après-ski-fall) is the site of North America’s largest Nordic skiing area. Your 200 kms (120 miles) of daily-groomed trails celebrates its […]
‘Bodacious Reading Series: Bob’s Not Responding I read at Bodacious last month. Ten minutes, six poems. My final one is you-tubed below on ‘Bob’s Not Responding’ (lyrics included). My other five may incarnate elsewhere. ‘Bodacious’ is a new reading series in North Vancouver, BC. Kim Seary and Yvette Dudley-Neuman host This reading series. November’s reading will be ‘Limbo,’ […]
Bicycling from Swartz Bay to Victoria along the Lochside Trail isn’t without incident. Just five minutes past the Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society (VRCMS) flying grounds at Michell Airpark, I meet a pig in a pigpen. Welcome to Lochside Trail Pig Gig, Tourism Vancouver Island, Destination British Columbia . I usually stop to see a model plane or […]
Britannia Mine Museum is a new industry member of the BC Association of Travel Writers. I make a visit. Just 55 kilometers north of Vancouver, and ten minutes south of Squamish, the Britannia Mine Museum is easy access along the scenic Sea to Sky Highway 99. At the site of what was once the largest copper-producing mine […]
A week after the Gastown Food Tour with Taste Vancouver, I’m up for another flavorful fling. This time it’s Taste Vancouver’s Little Italy food tour. I exchange BC Travel Writers for my husband and fourteen visitors and locals…a Californian couple off a cruise ship, a couple from Maple Ridge, a couple from the North Shore, […]
British Columbia Travel Writers are thrilled to welcome Taste Vancouver Food Tours as a new industry member. Our host, Brent, takes us on Taste Vancouver’s Gastown Food Tour. In the warmth of red-brick-and-stone buildings (as was the by-law after Vancouver’s Great Fire of 1886) we taste our way down Water Street. From Waterfront Station’s first […]
Travel Writing Panels and Channels The annual British Columbia Association of Travel Writers (BCATW) Symposium 2016, ‘British Columbia: Too Beautiful for Words’ started with a tour of the New Westminster Museum & Archives. Simon Fraser spoke to me (well, it was his photo and a quote). His journals are the first account of the […]