Third Beach
Secluded, old-growth-backed sandy shoreline famed for golden sunsets and a weekly community drum circle.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Third Beach in Vancouver traces how a Tuesday-evening drum circle began around 2005, when Brahm Olszynko, newly arrived from Ottawa, brought a few hand drums down to the sand and invited passersby to join him. You'll hear how the small gathering, with no permit or organizer, grew into what regulars call Brahm's Tams, now running every sunny Tuesday from late March through September. It passes Siwash Rock, the lone stone pillar just offshore that the tide has carved for thousands of years.
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