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Chocolate & Pastries at Thierry
Broke & Bougie
Floatplanes, an Orca and the Olympic Flame
Two free kilometres of Coal Harbour glamour: the Olympic Cauldron, a LEGO-look orca, floatplanes, and zero spent.
Broke & Bougie
Two free kilometres of Coal Harbour glamour: the Olympic Cauldron, a LEGO-look orca, floatplanes, and zero spent.
The Coal Harbour stretch is the one you walk when you want to look like you've planned something and haven't. About 2km of flat, paved, free waterfront from Jack Poole Plaza toward Stanley Park, and it rewards you at every turn. The 2010 Olympic Cauldron is photogenic even when it isn't lit. Douglas Coupland's Digital Orca, a pixelated LEGO-look sculpture of a breaching whale leaping out of the pavement, earns a longer look than you'd expect. Floatplanes skim down onto the harbour. The North Shore mountains do their thing across the water. Benches and grassy Harbour Green Park appear whenever you slow down. Golden hour is the move. Bring a coffee, keep no particular schedule, and let the quiet moments happen without rushing past them. This is the walk that costs nothing and delivers a genuine evening.
