Tuckers Inn B&B, Sechelt

Tucker’s Inn B&B is located on the Sunshine Coast, a pastoral, green belt on British Columbia’s west coast. The fact that it’s only a 40-minute ferry on island-studded waters from Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver to Langdale on the Sunshine Coast, means that it is close to Vancouver’s cosmopolitan pleasures but light years away from the traffic and bustle of the city. The lower section of the Sunshine Coast stretches 80 kilometers from Gibsons to Earl’s Cove where another ferry connects to Powell River. Tucker’s Inn B&B is conveniently located about midway between the two ferry terminals making it an ideal stepping off point to explore this precious section of coast.

A Sunshine Coast vacation begins as you depart the ferry terminal in Langdale; highway 101 meanders through stands of Douglas fir, hemlock and cedar, past long sweeps of beaches and a smattering of small towns. Traveling up the coast, most of the best postcard scenes are hidden from sight: fabulous fjords with sculpted shorelines of granite, off-shore verdant islands and lovely, mossy trails that, as well as sky-reaching, second growth forest, boast lustrous, red-barked Arbutus trees.

Neighborhoods are a mix of pretty summer cottages and posh homes tucked into the woods or overlooking the ocean, and are populated by loggers, fishers, craftspeople, writers and artists as well as those who seek the simpler life. Sunshine Coast commerce revolves around small, locally-owned businesses that look forward to the fact that, in summer, it’s population of about 27,000 burgeons to a quarter more as week-end cottage owners and visitors arrive to enjoy the idyllic climate. Its name is no tourist marketing gimmick, it boasts 2400 hours of sunshine annually.
The village of Sechelt, is set on an intriguing land formation as the Sechelt Peninsula joins the mainland at a narrow neck of land, sheltering an inland sea that was gouged out of the landscape by a massive ice formation some 10,000 years ago. This is home to the Sechelt Nation, a thriving community that is part of the Coast Salish Nation.