SGI OUTSIDE

The George Hill Park-Port Washington Loop is an undiscovered North Pender Island gem.

Since 2017, Mayne Island visitors have had access to this special wedge of Southern Gulf Islands real estate. The energizing hike includes two beaches, spectacular panoramas from shoreline bluffs, the finest stand of Arbutus in the Southern Gulf Islands, inviting intertidal zones, an assortment of wildflowers along the trail’s edge, and marine life swimming below and birdlife soaring overhead. It’s a dynamic yet tranquil SGI environment worthy of exploration.

Members of the Lily family and hundreds of other stunning wildflowers are easily found in the Southern Gulf Islands.

Ask Coast Salish First Nations peoples; they’ll tell you why. Foremost, it’s their deep and abiding spiritual relationship with the tree.