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Delve into Pender Harbour
The district Pender Harbour of Egmont in Sunshine Coast Regional District (British Columbia) is a subburb in Canada about 2,227 mi west of Ottawa, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Victoria, Friday Harbor, Port Angeles, Bellingham and Coupeville. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 15°C / 59 °F
Morning Temperature | 11°C / 51 °F |
Evening Temperature | 15°C / 60 °F |
Night Temperature | 12°C / 53 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 61% |
Air Pressure | 1021 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 6 km/h (4 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 93% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Wednesday, 15th of May 2024
15°C (58 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Overcast clouds, light breeze.
Thursday, 16th of May 2024
13°C (56 °F)
10°C (50 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Friday, 17th of May 2024
14°C (56 °F)
9°C (47 °F)
Sky is clear, fresh breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
West Coast Wilderness Lodge
Backeddy Resort and Marina
Videos from this area
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Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park. British Columbia.
This ebb current was flowing at about 10 knots. That is king of tame compared to its potential of 17 or more knots. This boat had no trouble navigating the day's maximum turbulence.
Skookumchuck Narrows, BC: 1st Dynamic Duo Tandem Kayak Surfing The Wave, August 2012
Steve Bailey and Ryan Kerrigan, the first known kayakers to surf Skookumchuck wave in a tandem kayak. They had a hoot and hollering good time and it was Steve's first time in the Jackson Dynamic...
Must Swallow Head First
Great Blue Heron seen at Egmont, BC trying to swallow a Gunnel. ( Ardea herodias ) June 28, 2011.
West Coast Wilderness Lodge in the Skookumchuck
West Coast Wilderness Lodge - Zodiac tour in the Skookumchuck tidal rapids at Egmont, BC.
Skookumchuck Narrows, Sunshinecoast, BC
Skookumchuck saltwater rapids at high tide in the twillight. The current go up to 13 knots between the tides. One of the fastest saltwater rapids in the world. I was cruising the Sunshine...
Sechelt Rapids April 2010
Diving the Sechelt Rapids in Skookumchuck Narrows, Sechelt Inlet on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
Egmont Day Parade 2010
The Egmont Day Parade is fun but very short so always goes around the loop road twice! http://heatherinbc.com Egmont Day Parade.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Madeira Park, British Columbia
Madeira Park is an unincorporated community in the area of Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast of southwest British Columbia, Canada. It was named for pioneer Joe Gonsalves' fond childhood memories of Madeira Island.
Skookumchuck Narrows
This article is for the saltwater rapids at the mouth of Sechelt Inlet. For the ghost town and First Nations community near Pemberton, British Columbia see Skookumchuck Hot Springs. For the town in the East Kootenay see Skookumchuck, British Columbia. Skookumchuck Narrows forms the entrance of Sechelt Inlet on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast in Canada.
Earls Cove, British Columbia
Earls Cove is a small settlement located on Jervis Inlet in the Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia. It is a terminal for the BC Ferries route across the inlet to Saltery Bay, linking the Lower Sunshine Coast with the Upper Sunshine Coast of B.C. Earls Cove is the at the north end of the Sechelt Peninsula and on the east side of the mouth of Jervis Inlet, adjacent to Agamemnon Channel, across which is Nelson Island.
Sechelt Inlet
Sechelt Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast and the third of such inlets north from the 49th parallel north, the first of which is Burrard Inlet, Vancouver's harbour. The inlet is significant in that it almost makes an island of what is instead the Sechelt Peninsula, whose isthmus is at the town of Sechelt at the head of the inlet. The isthmus is less than 1.2 kilometres in distance.
Garden Bay Marine Provincial Park
Garden Bay Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada at the northwest end of the Sechelt Peninsula on the lower Sunshine Coast, near the community of Madeira Park. Established in 1969, it contains approximately 163 ha.
Harmony Islands Marine Provincial Park
Harmony Islands Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of Hotham Sound, which is a side-inlet of the lower reaches of Jervis Inlet, on that inlet's north side roughly opposite the mouth of Sechelt Inlet.
Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park
Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, at various locations on Sechelt Inlet, Salmon Inlet and Narrows Inlet, near Sechelt (Salmon Inlet and Narrows Inlet are side arms of Sechelt Inlet). Established initially as a recreation area in 1980, it was converted to a park in 1999, containing approximately 140 ha. Individual sites within the park are: Halfway Beach site; W side Sechelt Inlet; 6.4 ha. Tuwanek Point site; E side Sechelt Inlet; 7.4 ha.
Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park
This page is for the park encompassing the saltwater rapids on the Sunshine Coast. For the park protecting rapids on the Shuswap River near Mabel Lake see Skookumchuck Rapids Provincial Park. For other uses and placenames see Skookumchuck. Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, protecting the saltwater rapids at the mouth of Sechelt Inlet known as the Sechelt Rapids, their location being known as Skookumchuck Narrows.
Spipiyus Provincial Park
Spipiyus Provincial Park is a 2,979 hectare provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Also known as the Caren Range, Spipiyus Park is north of Halfmoon Bay on the Sechelt Peninsula. It protects pockets of old-growth forest, prime habitat for the marbled murrelet. There are hiking trails that lead to Mount Hallowell with views of the islands and fjords of Pender Harbour, the Strait of Georgia and Vancouver Island. 35px This British Columbian protected areas related article is a stub.
Prince of Wales Reach
Prince of Wales Reach is the first arm of the Jervis Inlet and is located within the Coast Mountain Range of British Columbia Canada. This arm was named during the 1860 survey by the HMS Plumber who charted all the of the area and was named after Albert Edward - the Prince Of Wales, later Edward VII, who was the second child born in 1841 to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of England.
Hotham Sound
Hotham Sound is a sidewater of Jervis Inlet on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located near the mouth of that inlet on the north flank of its lower reaches, roughly opposite the mouth of Sechelt Inlet. Harmony Islands Marine Provincial Park is located on the east side of Hotham Sound. The spectacular Harmony Falls, also called Freil Lake Falls, plunges a total of 444 metres into the Sound. .
Ambrose Lake (British Columbia)
Ambrose Lake is a coastal lake on the Sunshine Coast at the north end of the Sechelt Peninsula in Sunshine Coast Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is about 850 metres long and 550 metres wide, and lies at an elevation of 57 metres about 2.5 kilometres southwest of the community of Earls Cove and 450 metres east of the Agamemnon Channel. The primary outflow is an unnamed creek to Ruby Lake. The origin of the name is unknown, but was adopted officially on July 28, 1945.