A huge congrats to Markus and Tatum for their Silver Award from Eat magazine for “Restaurants cooking local” category and an honourable mention in the “Restaurant of the Year” category. Amazing accomplishment, Markus’ click here for the Eat Magazine Awards link. For more information on the Sooke Region, please visit the Official Discover Sooke website.
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Upon further reading of the Eat Magazine awards we have another two honourable mentions for local Sooke businesses. The “Cafe” awards, an honourable mention to “The Stick in the Mud”, an amazing accomplishment given so many coffee places in the Victoria area. Well done and well deserved, David! And also a huge congrats to Edward [...]
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A few days ago, Russ Nicks, owner of Sooke Coastal Explorations , invited us to head out and film the removal of the old tug, the a tug that had broken free a few years back while being towed out, grounded in shallow waters and abandoned. 2 years ago it was nearly burnt to the [...]
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I received a call at 9pm, Sunday night asking me if I could attend the last minute, impromptu wedding ceremony for Karen and Francis, and would I please be able to capture their love on video? From the words of Karen herself, this is her story. “Thank you everyone for your best wishes.! Wow! What [...]
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Discover Sooke was sent this video from Island Vacation Homes here in Sooke – Port Renfrew, BC and it shows some amazing surf just 30 minutes west of Sooke in Jordan River, a known mecca for surfing. If you look at some of these waves, especially a few near the end of this video, they [...]
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Tonight, January 14th at 6pm, the television show “Untamed Gourmet” will air a feature on Sooke Harbour House. I believe this program will air on APTN for cable subscribers. Vancouver Island Dungeness Crab Air Date: January 14, 2011 6:00pm Details: Sinclair Philip’s Sooke Harbour House, on Vancouver Island, features an edible landscape of over 200 [...]
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Okay, so I’m a little late on a review here, the Lazy Gecko has been open for a few weeks and I’m not getting around to trying it out and giving it a review, but I can blame the Christmas holidays on this one. My buddy, Ron Larson, called me up today and wanted to [...]
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As I offer this service free to all new businesses in Sooke if they contact us, I’m going to be making use of my policy for myself and my latest venture. Most who know me realize that my hobby and passion has always been shooting photos, mainly landscape photos, but since recent events, like the [...]
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On November the 28th, after the Santa Clause parade in Sooke, people walked down the path in Ed MacGregor Park to see the 3rd annual Sail Past. 8 boats took part in this festive event, all lit up with Christmas lights. The local Canadian Coast Guard Aux. was on hand with Santa standing in the [...]
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We’d like to thank the Sooke Harbour Chamber of Commerce and the community of Sooke for presenting us an award over the weekend for the 2010 Awards of Excellence in the category of “Tourism Recreation & Leisure”. It’s a tremendous honour and recognition for us at the Discover Sooke headquarters and we are glad the [...]
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