Scenic location! Spacious rancher with oceanview near the beach. Beautiful open plan built by Garrett Construction, located on prime easy access almost 1/2 acre property. Lovely kitchen, open to living room w/ vaulted ceiling & maple floor. Cozy rockfaced-wood stove, natural gas stove, H/W, gas barbeque hook-up, HRV & 2 sundecks for outdoor living.

$546,000 cdn

A near half-acre ocean view property in the prestigious Gower Point area of Gibsons

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This bright West Coast Cedar and glass rancher-style residence is situated on an almost half acre park-like property in the prestigious Gower Point Road area of West Gibsons on the beautiful British Columbia Sunshine Coast. With an ocean view setting amongst Cedar and Douglas Fir trees, this first-time-on-the-market home features an open-plan with a vaulted ceiling in the great room and two outdoor decks.

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Diana Starbuck, Prudential Sussex Realty (Sunshine Coast)
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Phone: (604) 885-3295 or toll free: (888) 385-3295

LOCATION:

The residence in West Gibsons, British Columbia is a 10-minute drive from the Sunshine Coast’s BC Ferry terminal, at the end of a sheltered, spectacularly scenic 40-minute cruise from West Vancouver’s fjord-like Horseshoe Bay. The home is a 5-minute drive from Gibsons Landing which offers a good selection of cafes, restaurants and boutique shopping facilities. Waterfront strolls along the ocean esplanade, beaches, and hillside trails are also within minutes.

View house location in Gibsons via the interactive Google Map

Whistler-Blackcomb’s year-old Peak-2-Peak gondola — which offers a heart-stopping 4 km (2.5 Mi) journey, breathtaking vistas and links the two magnificent peaks — is the highest lift of its kind at 436 metres (1427 ft) above the valley floor. Its opening in December, 2008, was the final link in what’s claimed as the longest continuous lift system in the world. Record-breaking or not, Peak-2-Peak offers an epic transportation experience between North America’s two leading ski destinations and perhaps the world’s best pre- and après-ski attractions, dining and accommodations.

photo credit: Derek Purdy

Where most ski-lifts operate on a single cable, Peak-2-Peak uses four stationary carbon-steel cables to support the cabins (two for each direction) — like rails across the valley. Each 97-ton rope can support 767,723 pounds, and are designed to prevent swaying and allow the gondolas to operate safely in winds up to 80 KpH (50 mph).

2010’s Winter Olympics are Vancouver-based, with several Alpine events being staged in Whistler.

As the early snow continues to fall, Metro Vancouver’s Mount Seymour is planning an earlier-than-usual opening on Friday, November 20, with a current base of 70 cm, increasing as the freezing level descends. North Vancouver’s popular Grouse Mountain and Cypress Bowl resorts — the latter set to host free-style and boarding Olympic events — also enjoyed partial early openings on November 14 and if current snow conditions prevail, expect earlier than usual expanded openings by late November.

Cypress Bowl offers 47 designated alpine runs — many accessible for night-skiing — and 19 km of groomed cross-country trails. As well as easy-to-challenging downhill runs, Mt. Seymour offers snowshoe, cross-country and tubing opportunities, with full rental facilities and instruction readily available.

It all began when “The Great One”, Wayne Gretzky, lit the Olympic Cauldron at the downtown Vancouver waterfront on February 12!

Oh, the Vancouver Olympics memories …

Canada hosted the 2010 Games in Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler from February 12 to 28, 2010, and soon Vancouver and Whistler will also be host to the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games from March 12 to 21, 2010. Some 5,500 Olympic athletes and team officials from more than 80 countries took part in 86 medal events during the 17-day Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games — with the proud host country capturing 14 gold medals to set an new Olympic games record for most gold medals won, and most golds won by a host country

An additional 1,350 athletes from over 40 countries will participate in 64 medal events at the 12-day Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympic Games.

An estimated three billion people, around the world, watched the Games on their televisions, and saw Canadian hospitality, fanfare and patriotism at its best. It’s been a pleasure hosting the world! We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Winter 2010 Background Information:

All of the Vancouver and Whistler Olympic venues are now complete and testing of the various venues are complete. In total, $600 million will be spent on Olympic-venue construction. Additional costs have included $600 million dollars for an upgrade to the Sea-to-Sky Highway connecting Vancouver to Whistler; nearly $1 billion on an expanded waterfront convention centre to house the Winter Games media; $1.5 billion on a new elevated Canada Line light-rapid SkyTrain transit line to connect downtown Vancouver to Vancouver International Airport (YVR) in Richmond; and a $1 billion security budget for a joint Canadian and U.S. security presence. All in, the total will reach a Winter 2010 Games cost of $6 billion.

So, what does it mean for the Vancouver visitor and BC resident? For starters, a much improved downtown Canada Line transit system to make it easier for visitors to travel on public transit from YVR to downtown Vancouver, a state-of-the-art highway safety improvement to move more cars along the scenic Sea-to--Sky Squamish/Whistler corridor, a new wood and glass Vancouver waterfront convention centre architectural masterpiece, magnificent community venues which will be enjoyed by future Olympic athletes for years to come, and much more!

In addition, the much reported, False Creek Olympic Village sits majestically along Vancouver’s 14-mile pedestrian and bike-friendly sea wall. This high density development will provide athletes with luxurious accommodations in a cosmospolitan, waterfront scenic setting near Yaletown.

On February 12, 2010, The Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony will take place in downtown Vancouver’s 60,000-seat BC Place. To wrap things up, the closing ceremony spectacle will be broadcast around the world on February 28, 2010, and will also be held in BC Place. This will be the first time in Olympic Games history that the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies will be held in the comfort of an indoor venue.

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Now prospective British Columbia visitors can stroll virtually along Downtown Vancouver streets, and surrounding municipalities, and easily search for Vancouver attractions and city landmarks. For those planning to visit Vancouver and Whistler during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Street View will allow tourists to visit Olympic venues online. Google and the Vancouver Olympic Committee recently announced that the 2010 Winter Games venues will be mapped and photographed in time for the Games. Soon you will be able to tour “LiveCity Yaletown” plaza, Canada Hockey Place, The Richmond Oval speed skating venue and many more Olympic venues.

Metro Vancouver, Whistler and Squamish were photographed in 2008 and 2009, by Google-operated vehicles with rooftop-mounted cameras that zipped around city streets. Media reports state that the Vancouver street view photos use the most recent Google technology to display the sharpest images to date. See for yourself by visiting the following popular Vancouver sights and attractions:

• Robson Street
• Canada Place
• Gastown
• Stanley Park
• Cypress Mountain City Lookout
• Capilano Suspension Bridge
• English Bay
• Yaletown
• Granville Island
• Whistler Village (2-hour drive from Vancouver)

For more information and to explore Vancouver and Whistler virtually, click to Google Street View and search for a Vancouver location of interest.

Here’s a helpful Google Street View video to get you started …

Travellers are now able to cost-effectively travel from YVR to their downtown Vancouver destination. Travellers can purchase their boarding passes at the Airport and ride to downtown Vancouver in about 25 minutes.

Canada Line trains travel through a 14-minute long tunnel through the downtown core, crosses two bridges, and stops at 16 stations along the route to Richmond and YVR.

City visitors planning to catch a Canada Line to downtown Vancouver should note that rapid transit trains will alternate between end stops of YVR and Richmond-Brighouse.

By 2013, it is expected that the new rapid transit link will see 100,000 boardings a day.

For fares, schedules/route map, and more information, see: www.CanadaLine.ca

In a statement issued late Thursday (Aug. 13), a spokesperson for the band said “it is with great regret” that Aerosmith is cancelling the rest of its tour because of injuries that Steven Tyler suffered when he fell off the stage during an Aug. 5 performance in the USA.

Aerosmith, and special guests ZZ Top, have postponed their August 15 Vancouver concert at BC Place, along with other Western Canada tour dates, due to injuries Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler sustained on August 5 when he fell from the stage during a show at the Buffalo Chip Campground in Sturgis, South Dakota.

A rescheduled tour announcement is forthcoming for Vancouver. Ticket holders are asked to keep their ticket(s) as they will be honoured on the rescheduled date. Upon announcement of new concert dates, information for ticket buyers that are unable to attend will be also be released through concert promoter Keystone Entertainment.

Ticket patrons are asked to visit www.ticketmaster.ca (on the site, search Aerosmith) for Vancouver concert updates.

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As well as world-renowned ski resorts, BC has health resorts, marina-based and fly-in resorts and romantic get-away resorts, as well as dozens of specialty properties for kayaking, camping and recreational vehicle touring – and they’re located throughout BC’s heartlands in forests, on spectacular beachfront or island properties, in or near the mountains that dominate the Provincial landscape and sometimes even, in or near the Province’s major cities.

photo credit: Derek Purdy

Each one offers a very different, often unique experience. “Rustic elegance in Nature’s edge …” describes one Vancouver Island property, while another says its forest-setting villas ” … are carefully designed to take full advantage of the extraordinary geography of BC’s Sunshine Coast.”

Others offer:

“ … luxuriously appointed rooms, spectacular views;”

“ … one of the top 10 anchorages in the Western Hemisphere.”

“ … nine acres of majestic land along the ninth fairway.”

With 700 or more properties from which to choose, it’s no exaggeration to claim that BC’s resort industry has something for every visitor -– whether their preference is for indulgence and luxury or a more modest family or recreational experience.

In Vancouver, The Bachelorette introduced her dates to many of the city’s popular tourist attractions and outdoor activities, including kayaking around Granville Island, a boat cruise around the harbour, a helicopter ride over the city to dine atop Grouse Mountain. After a day of dating adventures, the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver — a heritage hotel in the heart of the city — provided elegant accommodations.

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Following dates and excursions in and around Vancouver, Jillian and her suitors travelled by limousine along the scenic, and recently upgraded, Vancouver to Whistler Sea to Sky Highway — the golden route to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

In Whistler, the show’s cast checked into the magnificent Chateau Whistler Resort, located at the base of Blackcomb Mountain. The next day, Jillian and and one of her dates experienced the thrilling Ziptrek through a Cedar, Hemlock, and Douglas Fir forest canopy, played in the fresh powder snow above the Tantalus Glacier, wined and dined in one of Whistler’s finest restaurants, and relaxed in one of the many hot tubs with sweeping mountain views.

After exploring the West Coast, the show travelled east along the historic Canadian Pacific Railway lines. Jillian and the gang boarded the Rocky Mountaineer passenger train in downtown Vancouver and enjoyed “GoldLeaf” onboard service as they rode in style through the British Columbia Fraser Valley and Canyon, Hell’s Gate, the Okanagan, and the BC Rockies — with a “one of the most dramatic rose ceremonies ever” destination of Banff, Alberta.

The Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) have announced that tickets to all events, including ice hockey, curling and the Opening and Closing ceremonies will be available on-line. Ticket demand is expected to be high, and it is advised that prospective ticket buyers create an account online at www.vancouver2010.com, prior to June 6, to be ready for the “virtual waiting room” ticket line-up.

In addition to the more than 150,000 competition and Opening and Closing Ceremonies Winter 2010 Games tickets, the June 6 sale also marks the first time thousands of Victory Ceremony tickets will be available as single tickets for $22.

If you’re unsuccessful in securing tickets on June 6, VANOC has also announced that there will likely be a Fall, 2009 small release of tickets.