Heading to Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain wilderness area with your family? Start the morning with a Ranger Talk and watch the feeding of the resident grizzly bears, Grinder and Coola. After the talk, enjoy breakfast at the Grizzly Lookout Café, where the menu features items such as Braised Beef and Root Vegetable Hash, candied and smoked salmon, Forest Apple Crumble, yogurts, Milk and Honey, and the Grinder “Bearioche” French Toast with West Coast “Bluebeary” preserve. The Breakfast with the Bears program runs on select dates in July, August, September and October from 8:30–10:30 a.m. Tickets also include access to the Skyride, North America’s largest aerial tramway.
Back at sea level, the 27th season of the city’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival continues through Sept. 24. Performances take place in tented stages at Vanier Park, overlooking False Creek. The 2016 season offers a varied program including a 1960s adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello staged during the American Civil War era, Romeo and Juliet, and the lesser-known Pericles, a play attributed in part to Shakespeare. Pericles follows a prince on a journey to find true love and discover life’s meaning.
Arrive early to explore Bard Village, where food concessions and a bar are available, along with picnic packages and pre-show talks. The Bard Boutique stocks books, scripts and play-related souvenirs for purchase, making it easy to take home a memento of the evening.