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New 12-seater whisks quiet-seekers from downtown Vancouver, BC to sleepy Bowen Island.

Shortcut to postcard paradise: hail a water taxi. The 20-minute ride makes the trip. Maybe you’ll even spot an

by Julie Ovenell-Carter 17 March 2009

The thing about paradise is that it shouldn’t be this easy to get to. But now that the good folks at Granville Island Water Taxi (GIWT) have taken it upon themselves to abbreviate the trek from downtown Vancouver, BC to bucolic Bowen Island—25 km (15.5 mi) northwest and a world away from the city’s beating heart—it’s time to accept the gift and get onboard before somebody beats you to it.
Late in ’08, GIWT’s tough little 12-seater craft started plying the picturesque waterway between Granville Island and Bowen Island. With a seven-day schedule—24 departures between 6:30 am and 11:30 pm—that’s friendly to commuters and tourists, and a 20-minute travel time from city to pretty, it’s no wonder you need reservations to travel in this particular express lane.
At $15 for a one-way cruise (or $25 roundtrip), the new water taxi service is a no-brainer for daytrippers who want to enjoy BC’s rugged coastal shoreline at “see level.” And come 2010, GIWT has another shortcut in the works: a 75-minute water-taxi run from Granville Island to Squamish, just south of Whistler, BC. 
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