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.
Hinge Park / Habitat Island, Southeast False Creek
More infoBroke & Bougie
'Beer Island' is a one-acre tidal wildlife refuge off the False Creek seawall that you reach via stepping stones and costs nothing.
Hinge Park / Habitat Island, Southeast False Creek
More infoIts name is Habitat Island, but the locals who dubbed it Beer Island were onto something. A one-acre wildlife refuge sits off the False Creek seawall at Hinge Park, built from rock excavated during the Olympics, with a postcard skyline view. At high tide you hop across stepping stones, which counts as adventure in the most satisfying sense. Pack a couple of cans, check the tide, claim a log.
Check the tide first: low tide means a stone causeway you stroll across, high tide means hopping stepping stones for a dry-ish-feet adventure. Once you're out on 'Beer Island' it's all driftwood, birds, lapping water and a postcard view back at the downtown towers. Pack a couple of cans and a snack, claim a log, and settle in. Give it about an hour, then it's a five-minute walk to Olympic Village's brewery row.
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