Sketch on Bowen Island

Itinerary updated! Check the description!
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Let’s meet and sketch on Bowen Island!

📅Saturday, August 16th, 2025
📍Tell Your Friends Café
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. Please join our Facebook group or follow our Instagram page to stay updated with our stories on that day.

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! To ensure that you get to the Bowen Island meet up on time, consider taking the #257 bus at 9:25 am, leaving from Dunsmuir @ Cambie. When we finish is really open-ended. Bowen Island is an interesting destination with lovely coastlines, deep forests and a much slower lifestyle. It is also a part of Metro Vancouver.

We will meet on Bowen Island, after 11:10 am, at the Tell Your Friends Café, 400 Bowen Island Trunk Road, Snug Cove, which is on a lane to the right, as you come off the ferry. From our meeting point, we can spread out, explore and sketch.

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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).

Be at the Dunsmuir St @ Cambie Street stop before 9:25 am for the #257 Express bus and arrive at 10:03 am in Horseshoe Bay. The BC Ferries passenger ticket booths are visible as you exit the bus.

https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/route/257/direction/1/schedule

In Horseshoe Bay you basically have a good half hour to buy your passenger ticket, but you must allow 10 minutes to walk down a long corridor to the waiting lounge - you board the ferry from there, down a ramp. After that everything gets easier! BC Ferries sails from Horseshoe Bay to Snug Cove on Bowen Island and the views are spectacular!!!

Leave Horseshoe Bay: 10:35 am*, arrive in Snug Cove 10:55 (20 minute crossing).*
$12 passenger fare return.

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