Vancouver Polar Bear Swim Vancouver’s annual Polar Bear Swim had a record number of participants Saturday as 2,230 people plunged into the chilly waters of English Bay on a sunny New Year’s Day in the Canadian city. In the presence of about 10,000 viewers at the 91st edition of the long-running event, the record number of participants eclipsed the old mark of 2,128 set in 2000. A spokesman for the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim Club, [...]
Image of the sculpture ’217.5 ARC X13′ by the French artist Bernar Venet, shown as part of the Vancouver Sculpture Bienalle. The problem with art is that it always seems to come into our lives from out of nowhere, like a surprise party. One day you’re doing some very normal things – jogging the seawall, awaiting the arrival of your half-caff latte, thinking about sushi – when BAM, there it is. Something way out of [...]
Whilst some of our friends went to Mexico for thier “Spring Break”, we in our wisdom decided on Tofino on the west coast of BC .. Sigh
