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That's for sure! I always wear loafers or sports shoes, otherwise feet get sore very quickly!
Oh yes, we have beaches throughout parts of the city and people do swim although the water isn't what I'd call warm. Off the west coast of Vancouver Island we have a great beach for surfing but it's wet suit surfing for the most part. And at the city beaches of course there is the annual Polar Bear Swim on New Year's day, the middle of winter here...people dress in all sorts of strange costumes and hurl themselves into the frigid water ... there's quite often alcohol involved for some of them
Polar bears are much further north than we are. Black bear, however, are pretty much a fact of life in parts of the Vancouver area, mainly those adjacent to the mountains. Spring and fall mostly, they're either coming out of, or about to go into, hibernation and are in search of food. Sadly many many are killed yearly by conservation officers when they're deemed to be a danger because they've become habituated to people. The same people who routinely don't practice "bear aware" rules and leave garbage etc. out where the bears can get to it. It's a big problem.
