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Category: Egmont
Egmont Heritage Centre
Across the road from the entrance to Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park, which is on Egmont Road, you will find the Egmont Heritage Centre. It’s a small museum with artefacts from Egmont’s pioneer and 20th century past. What’s refreshing about the museum is that it’s not so fancy that you can’t get up close to things. For kids, they can play with old phones — dialling is a novel activity. A lot of Egmont’s history is connected to Portuguese Joe, also known as Joe Silvey. His rather busy life — which included whaling in the Azores, two wives, many children […]
Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park
Located near Egmont on the Sunshine Coast, this is an unusual Provincial Park for a number of reasons. When you think “park” one often thinks of nice spots to have a picnic or enjoy a view. The view at the end of the trail is the ultimate purpose of the park. Visitor Centres and your accommodations will have a tide chart for Skookumchuck Narrows. Plan to arrive shortly before the tide ebbs or floods or you won’t receive the full reward for taking the trail. The Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park’s parking lot is off Egmont Road, about 6 km (4 […]
Getting to the Sunshine Coast
Considering the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia is actually part of the BC mainland, it’s odd that you need to take a 40 minute ferry ride to get there. BC Ferries provides the same sort of ships from Horseshoe Bay that they do when you sail to Victoria or Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. You arrive in Langdale and then you drive the Sunshine Coast Highway (a.k.a. Highway 101) to your destination. When driving this highway, keep in mind that it’s all two-lane undivided roadway, which isn’t what a lot of us consider a highway. There are a lot of […]
Skookumchuck Narrows Adventure
You just have to love the potential for adventure in BC. We were entertaining guests from the States, so we took a beautiful May day to explore the Sunshine Coast. The highlight was an evening cruise with Bryce of Sunshine Coast Tours to explore Skookumchuck Narrows in Egmont. Bryce is an excellent tour guide who freely shares stories and information about the area. It was an extra large current day, and we happened to find some avid kayakers taking advantage of the rapids. Even though it had been a rainy day, the skies cleared for our late afternoon cruise and we […]
