• DUNDARAVE VILLAGE – 2 blocks away on Marine Drive. It is only a block long but everything is there: IGA for groceries, 2 liquor stores, Starbucks and another coffee shop, drug store, a half dozen of the pub/café/restaurant places, bank and some gallery and nick knack shops. On the water at the foot of 25th is the Beach House restaurant – that along with the Truffle Café and Fish Market are the better restaurants – although I am a regular at the Bread Basket and Sushi restaurants …. well, no reason not to go to the Red Lion Pub and further down is Verdicchio Italian café.
• EXPLORE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD - The beach (rocky) is 100 yards away. Public pier and sand beach is not far. If the sun comes out it will be swimmable – in the appropriate season. A great seawall – can walk all the way to Park Royal or carry on up the Capilano River on a trail to the Cleveland Dam.
• PARK ROYAL SHOPPING CENTRE – is big – both sides of Marine Drive near the Lions Gate Bridge. There is a Whole Foods in their outdoor ‘village’.
• CAPILANO SUPSENSION BRIDGE is a popular tourist attraction…. for good reason.
• GROUSE MOUNTAIN – has a gondola that goes up to the ski area (has other attractions beside skiing).
• ‘THE GRIND’ - For a real work-out is ‘The Grind’ on Grouse Mountain – a trail that parallels the gondola up to the top – have to be relatively fit.
• HOLLYBURN MOUNTAIN – Our house is at the base of it. Another ski area. Can drive up then hike around.
• GRANVILLE ISLAND – A big tourist attraction is its market
• STANLEY PARK – lots there: restaurants, 10km seawall for hiking or biking (can rent bikes), aquarium, outdoor pools
• WHISTLER is only a 1 hour or so drive – lots going on up there.
• HORSESHOE BAY is a few miles west. Terminus for ferries to Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast and Bowen Island. A trip to Bowen is a practical outing. Can go as a foot passenger, have lunch in the village – ferry ride is just 20 minutes.
• WHALE WATCHING - Also at Horseshoe Bay is Sewell’s marina where you can take a ‘Sea Safari’ - see: http://www.sewellsmarina.com/safari.html . In Horseshoe Bay is the Ferry terminal to Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast and Bowen Island.
• FLOAT PLANES AND HELICOPTER base are downtown. Can get to places in a half hour that otherwise would take a day.
• LONSDALE QUAY is a public market on the water in North Vancouver
