[Meetup Info] Let’s sketch on Bowen Island

Itinerary updated! Read the description.

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Let’s meet and sketch on Bowen Island!

📍Tell Your Friends Café
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GrSaTpqzcFQ7t3XB9

📅Saturday, August 16th, 2025
Meetup 🕐 11:10 am
Sketch Throwdown 🕐 5:00 pm

*Some members are going to stay at the meetup location until noon so people arriving late can find the group. Since this is an extended event, please read the description below for the detailed itinerary (but you can basically come and leave anytime you want!).

*We will update closer to the date if anything changes.

THINK OF THIS as a great ALL day event and sketching opportunity! Going to nearby Bowen Island is also an adventure - we did it last year and it was lots of fun! Bowen Island is an interesting destination with lovely coastlines, deep forests and a much slower lifestyle. It is also a part of Metro Vancouver. The village of Snug Cove has a boat harbour, restaurants, pubs, ice cream available, gift shops and galleries. There is a fairly easy hiking trail, along a beach and through the forest to Killarney Lake (45 minutes each way).

How to Get There:
9:25 am: Take #257 Express bus at Dunsmuir St @ Cambie Street to the terminus stop, Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal
10:35 am: Take BC Ferry to Bowen Island. $12 passenger fare return

*You can also drive to Horseshoe Bay, but be reminded that the parking lots are paid and can fill up quickly.

Visitor’s info: https://www.tourismbowenisland.com/

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