Sunshine Productions Main Page
Welcome to Sunshine Productions website! I’m Sunshine (why the name?) and created this site to help and inspire others!
The main section documents our many adventures camping, snowshoeing and canoeing over the years via trip reports. Each trip report documents (with photos, videos and text) the adventure we had, stories, successes and failures. They can help in planning a trip, or if you just want to live vicariously through them. Feel free to browse the list of trip reports to read the reports that interest you (and those I haven’t documented yet). If you are interested in a particular location you can take a look at the following page. Hopefully you get inspired to head out there as well! If you have any questions please comment or ask directly!
I have been playing hockey for almost 30 years now (mostly as a goalie), many years competitively and used to run a website called the hockey resource. It had a bunch of articles and drills on hockey in general but with some focus on goalies. I decided to put them on here as reference since some of it could be real helpful to those interested! The list of goalie drills can be accessed here, The Beginner’s corner has info about the game, rules etc. Finally there is a section with info on hockey equipment including a few buyers guides.
We have a couple side articles on home automation and and how to efficiently plow snow from your driveway and shovel it clean. I also put up a few notes I took while reading some management/leadership books in case you wanted to know if its worthwhile reading them.
Feel free to comment on the articles, ask questions or send some requests, we have social media accounts as well (instagram, YouTube, Facebook, twitter) but this is all done on off-time.
Here are our latest posts:
A closer look at the Nest thermostat
I have been using a Nest in my home for several years and always wondered why certain seemingly simple features are not available. Recently, I decided to take a look at the API to see if I could make them work myself! Update Jan 25th 2023 – Took a look at some of the logs […]
Trip Report – Upper Petawawa 3-5 Sept 2022
In preparation for our planned Nahanni trip next summer, my father needed a bit of a refresher whitewater trip! The objective was the Upper Petawawa from Cedar Lake to Lake Travers, about 40km of river. We had been planning a trip later in September but my father was unavailable then and as another group of […]
Book Notes – Start with Why – Sinek
Manipulation only works for so long (transactional interactions) , inspiration builds loyalty Golden circle What – how – why Most use what to explain what they do, but decisions are often based on “gut” – which reverberates with why. When we believe what someone else believes (why) we feel more connected to that. Consistently going […]
Sept 15th 2022 Update
Haven’t posted in a little while so just wanted to provide an update. We’ve been able to tackled a good number of trip reports so far with still quite a few pending. It takes a while for some of these which have thousands of photos (some of which the timestamp/day is wrong) and then sort […]
Location – Petite-Nation River – whitewater canoe
The Petite-Nation River is located in Québec, Canada, originating in the Laurentians and ending in the Ottawa (Outaouais) River. The river is approx 97km in length with the flow being controlled. The river has a series of falls and rapids including the falls just before Plaisance (chutes de Plaisance) near the Ottawa River which is […]
Trip Report – 20-23 Aug 2010 – Coulonge River
This was my first (and only as of 2022) trip down the Coulonge river. The Coulonge, Noire and Dumoine are tributaries of the Ottawa river, in the same area and good for whitewater oriented trips. For this trip we had 12 participants: Burg, Gibe, Wissell, Sylvain, Val, Master Trooper (Dan), Dan’s father, Julien, Marty B, […]
Trip Report – 16 July 2022 – Petite-Nation River at 14.2m3/s
Another great trip down the Petite Nation. For me, this was the first whitewater of the year having finally been cleared for action after my hip replacement. We we also officially breaking in our new Esprit Canyon (Burger used it before since I was not cleared) and I was breaking in my new paddle I […]
Trip Report – 21-22 May 2022 -Rivière du Sourd
(In progress) Trip down the Rivière du Sourd in the Réserve Faunique Papineau-Labelle (north of Ottawa on the Québec side) May 21st and 22nd 2022. We ran this river a couple times before in early spring when there is enough water, not sure how the conditions are later in the season. Unfortunately I was not […]
Book Notes – Radical Candor – Scott
Excellent book, theory is that with appropriate feedback, people will learn and adapt better Based on a quadrant with one axis of caring personally and one axis to challenge directly Caring and challenging leads to radical candor which is the target Challenge directly without caring – Obnoxious Aggression Care too much without challenging – Ruinous […]
Trip Report – 9 to 13 Jul 2010 – Dumoine River
Another wonderful trip down the Dumoine river, with a bit of a more experienced group with most of us having done the river the year prior. For this trip we were 8 participants (Sunshine, Burger, Gibe, Val, Seb, Sylvain, Wissell with Eric L. joining us) in 4 canoes and wanted to see just how far […]
