This is the Head of the Lake. Really, it is the “head” of the “lake”. That’s not a metaphor. It’s a sacred place. People with bulldozers have tattooed it a bit, so […]
View Properties in the Okanagan
Great Big Lake Talking to the Sky
With this First Quarter of a Moon, I thought, the lake is breathing. Such intimate changes, step by step and wash by wash. In the creek, too. Psychedelic, even! When you look […]
Maybe Everything’s Not Quite Right with the World, But It’s No Reason to Lie
When I was a boy, back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Okanagan Lake was as clean as a bottle of Nestlé Water. Not now. Back in the day, you could drink […]
Winter Tourism in the Okanagan Valley
Right now, Okanagan Valley tourism centres around wine, beaches, boats, skis, golf, a bit of biking and adventure, a tiny bit of camping, and restaurants, usually with wine or golf or skis. […]
Travel Restrictions Removed in the North Okanagan
Travellers coming through today on their way to the Arctic, heads held high. Restaurant open for service. All is well.
Dramatic Okanagan Weather
Some of it is urban off-gassing. Ouch. You can see thin blue exhaust over the lake in the distance, wafting north from Kelowna, and more of it in Shorts Creek Canyon in […]
Reading the Water on a Winter Day
Reading water is almost easy when it is frozen. Okanagan Lake is a large body of water, 351 square kilometres of it, in fact. To put that in perspective, here are some […]
What is this Red Stuff in the Lake?
This is the shore of Okanagan Lake in Vernon. I’ve never seen it this colour before. It doesn’t look good, though. Normally, it’s the colour of ground-up granite, which around here is […]
The New Year Washes Ashore
Well, our future is here now. That’s the Okanagan Lake shore at Ellison Park. You can see the ground up sand brought in to make a comfy sunbathing beach of it, and, […]
Back to the Fire
The west shore of Okanagan Lake burnt last summer, amidst the burns of years before. It was a terrible time last summer, but now that the year is in its last hours, […]
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