Kayak Deep Cove into Indian Arm

One of Canada's biggest kayak fleets, English Bay, a possible seal, and a sunset that'll make you look good for free.

The glacier-fed lake so clear you'll forget there's a Costco 40 minutes away, paddle included.

A 25 km river loop around all of Port Coquitlam, almost zero hills, salmon in the water and absolutely no pressure to finish it.

Grab rentals on Denman, go counter-clockwise, and let 9 km of Coal Harbour yachts and Lions Gate Bridge views do the romantic heavy lifting.

Six flat kilometres along Burrard Inlet to a sandy beach at Old Orchard Park. Most first-timers never make it.

Prince of Whales runs heated catamarans out of Granville Island after orcas and humpbacks, with a 95 percent sighting rate and hot chocolate on board.

Walk a wobbling 137-metre bridge 70 metres over a river canyon and discover what your date's face looks like under genuine terror.

3.8 km from Deep Cove village through cedar rainforest to a granite outcrop hanging over Indian Arm, with doughnuts after.

The date that earns its smugness: 2,830 steps up, Skyride gondola down, beers and jelly legs at the top.

Vancouver showing off everything it has in one gloriously flat, car-free, 10 km loop where the ocean is the only map you need.

The 4.4 km Deer Lake loop wraps in under an hour and deposits you beside a rowboat rental and Burnaby's heritage district.

200 bird species, a 7-acre community garden and the kind of big-sky openness that has a strange way of making people tell the truth.

Flat South Langley trails through meadow, farmland and heritage barn territory, rated 4.7 by thousands of people who could not stop talking about it.

Where the Nicomekl River meets Boundary Bay and the birds arrive in the thousands, free and open from dawn to dusk.