Cherie Thiessen

The propane fireplace is really battling to heat this tent. I wonder if Kevin Toth, whose brainchild this was, took into account the heating bills when he came up with the idea of stringing 13 tents along a 2400 ft. wooden walkway hanging over the Malaspina Strait?
These tents have become very popular with newlyweds; 76 [...]

Focus on Women

text by Cherie Thiessen, photography by Tony Bounsall

Jennifer Barr’s Arts and Craft Home

Sometimes a house is more than a home. For Jennifer and Colin Barr, the one and a half storey Craftsman bungalow is their hobby, their passion, their showpiece, and their [...]

A peak experience on Mount Rainier

One hundred feet above the chasm, the Tahoma Creek suspension bridge
hung, narrow, 250 feet across, and swaying.
No good telling me that it was perfectly safe [...]

Beautiful BC Traveller Magazine

          text by Cherie Thiessen

Top ten skinny-dipping holes of B.C.

I dive for cover behind some rocks. My mother, a dignified 75, smiles
serenely at the startled couple who have just arrived and are cowering
[...]

Pacific Yachting

          text and photography by Cherie Thiessen

Sunset watching in paradise

Anywhere the promise of a beautiful sunset presents itself there is a hush over
the land and sea, people momentarily pause and life stills.
Sunsets are works [...]

Marco Polo Magazine

          text and photography by Cherie Thiessen

Canal boating in Great Britain

There is no way in the world that Red Duke is going to get through that gap under
the bridge. Oh dear.
[...]

Western Living

          text and photography by Cherie Thiessen

 Hot rocks

Take some smooth sea stones from the beach and put them in the magic, reverential hands of a trained therapist. Now add just the right amount of heat to stir up some sighs, mix in sounds of the sea and the tumbling pebbles [...]

Traveler Magazine

          text and photography by Cherie Thiessen

Cycling New Zealand’s
North Island

Maori legend has it that at the site of the famous pohutukawa tree located at Cape Reinga, Maori spirits depart on their journey to their final resting place. A [...]

The Traveler

          text and photography by Cherie Thiessen

I hold unto the side of the building to prevent the unrelenting Puerto Natales wind from turfing me onto the busy road. It has already scooped up at least five travellers, [...]

- Aqua Magazine

          text by Cherie Thiessen, photography by Kevin Oke

In the early hours of February 23, 1998, many North Pender Island residents awoke to sirens. Those who lived near Hope Bay and looked out at the rosy glow [...]