Two travel features: B.C.’s Sunshine Coast an idyllic retreat

ByHeather Conn


Sunshine Coast residents like me love to keep our amazing region a secret, yet it’s hard not to want to share the beauty of its landscapes.

I wrote a piece in a travel guide that invites tourists to visit the Sunshine Coast from nearby Vancouver. It’s only a 40-minute ferry ride away from this scenic coastal city.

Click this link “Sunshine Coast,” Vancouver & Victoria, Travel Colourguide to read my piece that appeared in this Formac Publishing guide book, in Halifax, NS, in 2008.

Another of my travel features—“The Sunshine Coast: a little out of the way but that’s the beauty of it”—appeared in winter 2005 issue of Western Canadian Resorts magazine.

Click here to read the article, with colour photos.

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