English Bay beach
English Bay is a beach located in a secluded bay near the West End of British Columbia, in the heart of Vancouver. The resort is known for its picturesque sunset views, clean beach, transparent water and gentle sun.
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Beach description
The ocean is clear, warm in summer. English Bay is artificial, white sand was brought on the territory in 1898, today the beach is very popular and crowded.
Tourists have fun on pleasure boats, play volleyball, frisbee, ride bicycles, rollers, longboards. Plenty of room to sunbathe, do sports, jogging or a full training session. On the horizon, you can notice big ships, the tankers. There are locker rooms, beach houses, many shops, restaurants, cafes, parking lots. The pathways are paved with dwarf palm trees growing along them.
Many people come to the beach to sunbathe and have a picnic. People of all ages with different interests spend their holidays here – a great beach to make a new acquaintance. In the summer, numerous festivals take place on the territory of English Bay:
- Pride Parade,
- two-week fireworks festival,
- Polar Bear is a New Year's swim dedicated to polar bears and many others.
When is it better to go
In most of Canada, there is a mild, temperate climate, in the north is subarctic. The average temperature in July is +21 degrees in the south and up to -4 in the Arctic archipelago. Winters are cold – in the south +4 degrees, in the north to -35. Precipitation is up to 1250 mm per year in the north and up to 2500 on the coast of the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. A sharp frequent change in atmospheric pressure. It is not hot in the country. On the Atlantic coast, the weather is unstable - it is warm in summer, storms in winter, snowfalls. The best time to relax in Canada is the summer months.