24th May 2025

Yes, the showers definitely had stinky water, and the 4 minutes of hot water was rather too short a period of time. R had to rush back to the van, for more money, before racing back to finish showering off the conditioner.

Today we head on down south to see R’s niece & her chap in West Kelowna. I had planned a couple of stops on route. The first was the rail heritage site at Kamloops. Turns out not open to the public and was firmly closed. A woman nearby said it was never open.

Fueled up with $100 of petrol and headed south.  Next stop was the Falkland Museum and Heritage Park. It looked decidedly closed as we drove past.

The final planned stop was the Historic O’Keefe Ranch.  Again, not open, apparently starting to open on the 7^th June.  At least the restaurant was open, where we had a coffee and a slither of cheesecake.

We lucked out at the Swan Lake Nature reserve where there was an Osprey and her chick. Even managed to get some shots of her coming in to land on her nest. Fabulous.  Ospreys seem to be quite numerous in Canada. Unfortunately, we walked through some rather boggy, wet ground.

We backtracked a little and drove down the west side of Okanagan Lake. A windy narrow road, with everyone exceeding the speed limit. Apparently, it claims a life every year as a vehicle goes into the lake.  No Armco barriers to protect you from a watery fate.

We arrive at Anne & Peter’s for supper, parking on the road. Their drive was too steep.  Our CruiseCanada van lowered the tone of the road. We arrived saying we needed to wash our feet before we could come in. Feet washed & dried, we entered their house

They had a deer living part-time in the garden, presumably keeping out of the sun, along with quails.