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Broke & Bougie
Hop Out to 'Beer Island'
'Beer Island' is a one-acre tidal wildlife refuge off the False Creek seawall that you reach via stepping stones and costs nothing.
Broke & Bougie
'Beer Island' is a one-acre tidal wildlife refuge off the False Creek seawall that you reach via stepping stones and costs nothing.
Its official name is Habitat Island. The locals who named it 'Beer Island' were also onto something. This one-acre wildlife refuge sits just off the False Creek seawall at Hinge Park, built from rock excavated during the Olympics and now home to driftwood, birds and lapping water with a postcard view of the downtown skyline. At low tide a stone causeway connects it to shore; at high tide you hop across stepping stones, which qualifies as adventure in the mildest and most satisfying sense. Once you're across, it's genuinely quiet out there, which is remarkable given the brewery row five minutes in the other direction. Pack a couple of cans and a snack, check the tide so you don't end up wetter than planned, and claim a log for golden hour. Free.
