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Things to Do

In January

Take part in (okay then, just watch) the Polar Bear Swim at Seafarer's Park.
Read "Fishing With John" by Garden Bay's Edith Iglauer Daly.
Tour the Daniel Point subdivision to admire the fabulous lottery prize homes located there.
Celebrate the birth of the bard (Robbie Burns) at the Legion 112.
Take in the sunset as you enjoy dinner at the Grasshopper Pub-- try a traditional East Indian dish.
Collect driftwood and ocean-smoothed stones from Lee Bay in Irvine’s Landing.
Hunt for a fat and tasty winter-spring salmon. Local secret: this is the best time of year to catch your limit!
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our January Calendar.

Try your luck at the Community Club's Thursday night bingo.
Spend an afternoon in the Pender Harbour Reading Centre.
Settle in at the Pender Harbour Message Board to catch up on local issues and opinions.
Test your knowledge (and your luck!) at a Legion Quiz Nite.
Take a course through the Pender Harbour Community School.
Pamper yourself in the sauna and hot tub at the Pender Harbour Aquatic Centre.
Enjoy delicious, early-morning Eggs Bennie at Java Docks.
Think spring by planning an eco-friendly garden with the help of “Get Your Garden Off Drugs” by local author Carol Rubin.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our February Calendar.

Celebrate St. Paddy's Day at a local pub— phone first to find out who has greenest beer!
Sketch a commercial fishing boat tied up at the Whiskey Slough wharf.
Read “Raincoast Chronicles” (Harbour Publishing) for some local coastal lore.
Eat a legendary Skookumburger and watch the hummingbirds return to the Backeddy Pub.
Help keep Pender Harbour pretty— join the Go Green for St. Patrick's Day beach cleanup.
Browse the gorgeous Pender Harbour photographs on Flickr.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our March Calendar.

Learn some fascinating Pender Harbour history in “The Curve of Time” by M. Wylie Blanchette.
Enjoy some home cookin' at Laverne's Grill in Garden Bay. Not hungry? Surf the net.
Have an extreme 4X4 adventure exploring the Caren Range on old logging roads.
Enjoy a Pender Harbour Music Society concert.
Join a team to compete in the April Tools wooden boat challenge.
Have a picnic and enjoy the panoramic view at the top of Pender Hill.
Test your skill at the Pender Harbour Golf Course driving range.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our April Calendar.

Meet old friends and new at the Pender Harbour May Day fairgrounds.
Photograph birds collecting nesting material from last year's pampas grass plume.
Take in the Attack of Danger Bay longboard races, longboard hockey and slide competitions.
Compete for great prizes at the annual Garden Bay Classic golf tournament. Golf not your thing? Try your luck in the annual Garden Bay Classic fishing tournament.
Spend a Sunday after noon soaking up great music at a Garden Bay Pub blues jam.
Buy something totally useless but absolutely charming at the Spring Bazaar.
Have a picnic in the gazebo at Seafarer's Park and admire the commercial fishing boats.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our May Calendar.

Celebrate summer at the Pender Harbour Blues Festival.
Collect oysters off a rocky Nelson Island beach or visit a commercial oyster farm.
Visit Kleindale Nursery and Pam’s Plants to find new acquisitions for your garden.
Tour the Harbour Artists' gallery.
Go windsurfing in Garden Bay Lake.
Drive to the end (or is it the beginning?) of Highway 101— it's at Lund, an easy day-trip.
Enjoy a traditional Lions Club Father's Day Pancake Breakfast at Lions Park.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our June Calendar.

Swim and spot turtles in Ruby Lake.
Feel very sophisticated by attending the Chamber Music Festival.
Visit the Flying Anvil Studio and Motoko's Gallery in Garden Bay.
Enter your classic car or custom rod at the Pender Harbour Show & Shine, or enter for great prize draws just for voting on your favourite.
Pick gallons of fat, wild blackberries for eating right now, or for freezing, making jam, pies, tea, wine and liqueurs.
Admire the yachts tied up from the deck at Garden Bay Pub.
Spend a day or the whole weekend at the Bonfire Festival at Lions Park.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our August Calendar.

Hike Mount Daniel Trail to the top, then meditate on the moonstones.
Join the party at the annual Hogz & Rods Roadfest in Kleindale.
Read “Bertrand Russell: Pender Harbour Cowboy” by Betty Keller.
Rent a kayak to explore the many small inlets of Agamemnon Channel.
Let a real estate agent show you a million-dollar waterfront home. Fantasize that it's yours.
Take in a free event at the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival.
Wonder why there's so many helicopters around this time of year.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our September Calendar.

Enter your homegrown produce, photography or wine in a competition at the Pender Harbour Fall Faire.
Like to sing? Join the Pender Harbour Choir.
Read a Maureen Foss novel.
Make new friends by joining one of our Local Groups.
View the Hallowe'en Fireworks from Seafarer's Park, stick around to enjoy the bonfire and hot chocolate.
Catch a monster trout in Garden Bay Lake.
Grab some friends, appoint one as Designated Driver and head off on an old-fashioned pub crawl tour. Plan your route here: Food & Beverage (Pubs).
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our October Calendar.

Search for exotic, wild mushrooms at Lions Park.
Browse art, crafts and gifts at the Harbour Boutique, Copper Sky, Marina Pharmacy, Village Vintner and Blue Waters Books in Madeira Park.
Hike the Skookumchuck Trail to view extreme whitewater rapids.
Plant bulbs beside a rural-route mailbox or in front of a road sign.
Pick out a lobster for dinner from the live tank at Off the Hook Seafoods.
Rent a boat to try your luck at bottom fishing— rock cod, yum!
Read a perfectly trashy, best-selling romance novel by Judy Gill (she's from Egmont).
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our November Calendar.

Spend an evening touring the area to admire Christmas light displays.
Collect cedar boughs, Oregon grape leaves, salal berries and pine cones for an old-fashioned, home-made, fragrant holiday wreath.
See how many bird species you can spot at the annual Pender Harbour Bird Count with the Pender Harbour Wildlife Society.
Explore our Shopping and Visual Arts> Galleries pages for an inspired Christmas present idea.
Sing Christmas favourites aboard a decorated boat in the annual Carol Ships Parade.
Shop locally— it benefits the whole community.
Check out festivals, live entertainment and other events in our December Calendar.

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