Sunshine Coast Wheeling

[Enigma]

With the amount of coast line the Powell River area has, not much of it is accessible by 4x4. I set out on todays afternoon adventure with my trusty sidekick Milo to find a beach or two I heard tale of....

The route

 

[Enigma]

The pics...

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[Enigma]

I was trying to get to this rumoured beach at Elephant Point that a buddy had sent me a pic of when he took his bike in. I looped around the logging slash road but apparently it's well hidden and I missed it. The pics pinked above are from a beach at the north side of St Vincents Bay.

 

[Enigma]

The trail I took straight north from Elephant Point towards Hotham Sound was extremely grown in. The maps showed a trail down to the water so I went for it. It was thick, I was bulldozing over 4" or so alders and just hoping the road was there as I couldn't see a damn thing most of the time, all while along a cliff edge road..fun stuff
It eventually ended at a bit of a clearing where I could turn around luckily, but I could see no trace of any beach access trail.

 

[Ol Yeller]

Still nice to get out, I see Milo got a swim in, more adventure awaits.

 

[porschenut]

Photos look amazing! I wish we have secluded oceanfront spots like that so close to home.

 

[Enigma]

Went for another adventure today to try and find the trail down to that beach in the bike pic above. I found it. It is epic. There was carnage.

 

[Enigma]

s'more pics

 

[Enigma]

Looking across Hotham Sound at the Friel Waterfall

 

[Ol Yeller]

Wow, that IS nice!

Hard on the truck though…

 

[porschenut]

Very excited about heading this way soon (probably Monday Aug 4th). My wife and I will be leaving from the Lower Mainland. Having never been farther than Sechelt, we’d like to go as far north as possible and find a secluded camp spot with an ocean view. Would that be somewhere around Lund? Any advice would be much appreciated!

After a night or two on the coast we then plan on taking the ferry over to Comox and exploring Vancouver Island for 4-5 days. It’d be nice to just “wing it” with the ferries but Is that a terrible idea?

 

[cruiserpilot]

I don’t know about crossing from Sunshine Coast but when you finally decide to leave either Horseshoe Bay or Duke Pt or definitely Victoria make sure you have a reservation. The major routes are crazy busy and it’s almost impossible to figure out if it’s a quiet time. Not until way past end of summer.
Bring your backroad map book. Bladedog and the group did a cool trip last year and that route would really be an eye opener for north island sight seeing.