{"id":14749,"date":"2012-06-16T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=14749"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:53:26","slug":"plage-de-lhorloge-opens-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/06\/16\/plage-de-lhorloge-opens-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Plage de l&#8217;Horloge opens this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[youtube width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;473&#8243;]http:\/\/youtu.be\/F2qCqV_00ms[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Having grown up on the East Coast, the word &#8220;beach&#8221; is connected connected intimately to getting into the water to swim and splash around to cool off. This is why I have a hard time connecting these strips of sand on a quay in the old port to an actual beach. However, I&#8217;m sure many residents of a city lacking an actual beach (Oka, my favourite beach of any proximity to Montreal, is quite a distance away for many) will take what they can get. Other cities, also far away from natural beaches, have created similar sandy areas that they call beaches such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sugar_Beach\">Sugar Beach<\/a> in Toronto and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris-Plages\">Paris-Plages<\/a> in Paris (the most significant difference being that those beaches are free). Our &#8220;Plage de l&#8217;Horloge&#8221; is the latest phase of a large redevelopment of the Old Port into a recreation\/tourist mecca, as can be seen in the official video above.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking the beach was open yesterday, I went down to check it out. Unfortunately it wasn&#8217;t opening until the next day (today) so the photos I took show the beach empty and undisturbed. It&#8217;s broken up into two sections, a long strip on the northern side of the quay and a triangle on the eastern point below the clock tower. Along with sand there are a number of adirondack chairs, umbrellas, a boardwalk, a bar, and a few mist stations. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.montrealgazette.com\/2012\/03\/02\/montreals-old-port-beach-sand-boardwalk-umbrellas-but-no-swimming-and-it-wont-be-free\/?rel=813072\">According to <em>The Gazette<\/em><\/a>, the cost of installing the beach was $3 million plus another $400,000 for \u201creception and service pavilions\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7213\/7381874730_17ae06a541_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5322\/7381875602_228ea996fe_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7076\/7381875206_25bfe80f0b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7097\/7381875958_ab1b983358_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The beach opens today and is free for the rest of the weekend. Afterwards, entrance fees vary between $3 and $6. It opens at 10h30 and closes at 19h30 daily until September 3rd when it will only be open on weekends until September 23rd when it closes for the season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vieuxportdemontreal.com\/plage-de-lhorloge.html\">Official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube width=&#8221;600&#8243; height=&#8221;473&#8243;]http:\/\/youtu.be\/F2qCqV_00ms[\/youtube] Having grown up on the East Coast, the word &#8220;beach&#8221; is connected connected intimately to getting into the water to swim and splash around to cool off. This is why I have a hard time connecting these strips of sand on a quay in the old port to an actual beach. 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