The Tulips of the Valley Festival on Seabird Island kicks off this Saturday, April 16th. With more than 30 acres of blooming tulips there is an endless carpet of colour for everyone to explore. Be sure to check out the Harrison Beach Hotel’s Tulip Festival Package including two nights accommodation as well as entrance and parking to the festival.
Harrison Hot Springs was recently voted #9 in TripAdvisor‘s 2011 Traveler’s Choice Top 10 Beaches in Canada. Did you know that Harrison’s beautiful sandy beach is man made? In the early 1960′s local resident Fred Hardy, assisted by Dan Power, assembled a dredge out of second-hand parts in order to pump sand from the bottom of Harrison Lake up onto it’s southern shore. After running the dredge 24 hours a day for two years, 700,000 yards of lakebed sand was successfully repurposed as sandy waterfront beach.
Full program details for the 2011 Harrison Festival of the Arts are now available on the Festival website. This years line up includes ‘Superharp’ James Cotton, folk/roots musician Colin Linden, Cajun master Steve Riley, festival favourite from 2009, Hawaiian music troupe HAPA and many more. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online or by phone at 604.796.3664.
This weekend attendees from all over the world have gathered in the small village of Harrison Hot Springs to pay tribute to local resident and veteran sasquatch researcher John Green. Green has dedicated more than 54 years to collecting scientific evidence and eyewitness reports that number in the thousands. He’s extensive field research data and published books are regarded as the best information available on the sasquatch subject. The conference kicks of today, April 08 at the Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa and continues on till Sunday with a number of guest presenters including Bob Gimlin of the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film and our very own Harrison sasquatch researchers Thomas Steenburg & Bill Miller.