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10 p.m. Toast to a Perfect Day Mid-century-inspired tiki bar Citrus and Cane is the ideal venue for a nightcap. Over an order of spicy coconut margarita (made with Sons of Vancouver chili vodka and toasted coconut orgeat, $17), start scheming up a game plan for your next Victoria escape. 3 p.m. Up, Up and Away The Malahat SkyWalk is 35 minutes from Victoria by car—thrill-seekers, take note, and height-phobics, beware. It's perched in the West Coast forest, allowing views for miles around: on a clear day, walk up the spiral ramp to find sightlines to Mount Baker and the Saanich Peninsula (the top is 250 metres above sea level). The walkway from the visitor centre to the SkyWalk runs high above the ground, placing you among the arbutus treetops, but if that's not thrilling enough, you're welcome to kick back on a vertigo-inducing net at the top of the structure, or whip down the spiral slide back to the bottom in a few heart-pounding seconds. A solid selection of beers and coffee is available at the on-site cafés to steel your nerves ($35 for adult admission). 7 p.m. Dining In The Grand Pacific is giving a certain other hotel restaurant (we see you, Courtney Room) a run for its money with its newly revamped dining room, Fathom—and we welcome this healthy, gourmet competition. It's easy to fill up on the plush milk buns—served with honey cashew butter, rosemary, rock salt and bee pollen ($9)—but the squid-ink spaghetti vongole is a winning main, topped with a generous portion of tiger prawns and trout caviar ($38). Chef Peter Kim (formerly of Blue Water, Glowbal, Fairmont and Seaside Provisions) takes plenty of inspiration from Japanese cuisine: the hal- ibut is served with miso custard and potato tobiko dumplings ($40), while the buttery sablefish ($41) comes on a plate of mind-bend- ing "nori sand." Grab a window seat as you tuck in so you can scope out the majestic Empress and watch the sailboats as they drift around the harbour. N atu re H i g h Th e M a l a h at S k y Wa lk is 2 5 0 m etre s a b ove s e a l eve l—a n d th e s p ira l s li d e is tota lly wo r th th e wo rko ut it ta ke s to g et to th e to p . D i n n e r Date D o n't s l e e p o n th e m ilk b u n s in Fath o m , th e n ew d in in g ro o m in th e G ra n d Pac ifi c H ote l . Fathom: F. Lee Green; Citrus and Cane: Johann Vincent LOCAL G ETAWAYS VICTO R IA 38 BCBUSINESS MAY/JUNE 2023