Its central and perennially popular Stanley Park is one of North America's largest urban parks, graced with colonies of curious racoons and stunning views out to the snow-capped North Shore mountains.
For a watery adventure, pick up a vessel at Sunshine Kayaking in Gibsons and drive 20km north to the Sechelt Inlet, from which you can paddle out to one of the off-shore islands, such as Poise Island.
These banks would suddenly be shut out of the capital-raising business to shore up their broken balance sheets because global liquidity would instantly freeze (recall the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and its aftermath whereby financial institutions could not readily access capital).
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But he insisted the UK was on target to meet the expectation - set out in its renewable "roadmap" - of the scale of on-shore wind's contribution to UK energy by 2020.
Japan would provide public funds to shore up the financial system, while weeding out non-performing institutions.
Where are the -- how many skimmers are actually out there now close enough to shore to be doing some good?
The state of Louisiana said Tuesday that of 343 operational skimmers, only 40 were sent out Monday in search of oil -- and they came back to shore with 100 cubic yards of debris, but not even one gallon of oil.
West Angle Bay, on the southern shore of Milford Haven, faces directly out to the mid-channel rock where the Empress foundered and has also been used for many years as a living laboratory by the nearby Orielton Field Studies centre.
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The inn is set on Lake Wakatipu's northeastern shore, looking out across the water to the 6, 000-foot Humboldt Mountains.
Drive up the Windward Coast to the North Shore for surfing, stand-up paddle boarding and windy walks out to Kaena Point.
"I don't want to say it's like 'Jersey Shore' for us out here, " said Georgina Comley, a 23-year-old Jack Wills employee.
Sailing on San Francisco Bay rather than miles out on the ocean, Oracle envisioned the 72-foot cats wowing both spectators lining the shore and TV viewers alike by skimming across the top of the waves.
These oceans, and the fish that live there, are full of plastic, reduced to confetti, incessant from shore to shore, spread out like a spoonful of sand across a football field, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface.
TiVo hopes the devices will help the pioneering DVR company shore up a slipping subscriber base by catching up with how digital-era consumers increasingly seek out entertainment.
Grid cables transporting the power to shore are neither expensive - in the greater scheme of things - nor technologically complicated to roll out, so this is a minor part of the project, according to Mr Bratland.
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