Sunshine Coast Trip, Part Two

Part One of this trip is here.

The next morning, after an excellent breakfast served by our hostess at the Bonniebrook Lodge, we got back into the car and headed up 101 on the coast past Robert’s Creek and Sechelt into new unexplored territory.

Halfmoon Bay has a well-kept business-like harbour in a sheltered bay surrounded by high treed slopes. Fishing boats were tied up at the government wharf.


Garden Bay seems more of a recreational boater’s destination although very few boats were around when we stopped by. The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club has a facility here for the use of its members. The caretaker stopped to chat when he noticed us snooping around. I don’t think he really believed that my sister is a member of the Yacht Club.



The road twisted up and down and around and around as we drove further up the coast. North of Madeira Park, we came to Ruby Lake, an idyllic little lake with a glassy reflective surface and small tree-covered islands, surrounded by forest.


If you look carefully you can see houses here and there between the trees.



We drove as far as Earl’s Cove where the ferry leaves for Saltery Bay, before turning around. It was lunchtime and we turned up a narrow little road to Egmont looking for someplace to have lunch. And we found the Backeddy Pub. It’s even more rustic than it looks in these pictures!


Nine or ten of the locals were gathered to watch the final Women’s Hockey game between Canada and Sweden. And that’s where we were when Canada won the Olympic Gold.


It would have been great to also go to Skookumchuk Narrows to see the Skookumchuk Tidal Rapids but we didn’t have time this trip. Homeward bound, we drove back to Langdale to catch the 4:30 ferry back to Horseshoe Bay.