Sunshine
Coast
British Columbia, Canada
Forty-five minutes by ferry from Horseshoe Bay, and a world apart. The Sunshine Coast is where artists live in the woods, farmers feed their neighbours, pub owners know your name, and the forest meets the sea in a way that makes everything else feel less urgent.
Why Gerald Keeps Coming Back
The Sunshine Coast is not a destination you stumble into. You take a ferry to get here, and that crossing — forty-five minutes across Howe Sound — is the first act of intention. By the time you dock at Langdale, something has already shifted.
What Gerald has found here, over many visits, is a community that has quietly figured out how to do things right. Aaron Joe of Salish Soils is turning organic waste into food for Elders and hospital patients. Todd Clark is painting large-scale abstracts in a studio surrounded by five acres of forest. Kara Macdonald has run the Blackfish Pub for twenty-five years and still knows what you want before you order it. Scott Collison gave a town with no nightlife a reason to go out on a Tuesday.
These are not stories about a place trying to become something. They are stories about a place that already is something — and is generous enough to let you in on it.
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One Straw Tiny Farm
A Best Day in Roberts Creek
A working micro-farm, a legendary Big Table Dinner under fairy lights, a free tool library, and a community that does things the right way. Worth every minute of the ferry crossing.
Todd Clark Studio
Best Day for the Home
A self-taught abstract painter, six gallery representations, and a studio in the woods of Gospel Rock. The best day you will spend hunting for something extraordinary to put on your wall.
Scott Collison
The Man Who Gave the Coast a Night Out
From contractor to nightly entertainer — Scott Collison runs trivia nights, Rock 'n' Roll Bingo, and paint parties that have become the social heartbeat of the Sunshine Coast.
Aaron Joe & Salish Soils
Indigenous Enterprise of the Year
2026 Indspire Award laureate. From the shíshálh Nation, Aaron Joe turned 20,000 tonnes of waste into soil, food, and community healing — and built a seven-acre farm that feeds hospital patients and Elders.
Cliff Gilker Park
Walk in the Park — Ɂiyuls
Where the ferns are taller than your ambitions and the waterfalls don't care what day it is. A rainforest walk through Roberts Creek that resets everything.
Ghosts of Graffiti — Molly's Lane
The Art That Lives in the Alley
The most surprising gallery on the Sunshine Coast lives in a back lane in Gibsons. Street art, community murals, and the kind of colour that makes you stop mid-stride.
Meepo Boards
Best Day Ever on Electric
The Hurricane is a T700 carbon fiber, dual 3,500W, 35 mph board that changes how you interact with the world. Gerald rides one on the Sunshine Coast. You should too.
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