Travel: Canada’s best-kept secret, the Sunshine Coast
Collage of photos from British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast by Jefferson Graham for the PhotowalksTV series Even when you live in a coastal paradise, it’s great to sometimes get away to a land with greener grass and trees, islands and inlets, berries that grow on trees at the side of the road, big skies and the notion of going to places where the only route is via a ferry. You can see some of that in Oregon and Washington during the summer, but go a little farther up the road, and you get to visit a different country with a 25% price break on everything you buy, (the difference between the Canadian and U.S. dollar) incredibly friendly people, stores that sell products with labels in English and French and a waterfront that looks quite different from ours. Two words: green and mountains. I first discovered the Sunshine Coast of Canada in 2010, when a friend who lives in Vancouver recommended it as a less congested take on Vancouver Island, which is home to Victoria, the capital of the province. Boy was David Hathaway right. I left there thinking the Coast was one of the top 5 most gorgeous places on the planet, on par with New Zealand and Kauai and now set out to return and prove it…
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