Feb 24th…Walking on thin ice.

Another beautiful day in the neighbourhood…….the intrepid adventurers set out in the truck for a bit of a tour.

Wrights Beach Camp as we left was another one of those days where you just have to stop and get out to gaze at the view from the bottom end of the campground.

The lower end of the lake at Okanagan falls remained frozen, and frozen enough for ice fishers out there. The next Lake down the valley is Vaseux, where the birding area is….. and it pretty much all frozen. Just like further up at OK Falls….multiple ice fishing huts out there, with people lighting little camp fire by their fishing holes. Scott had had the notion that he wanted to walk out there and take some panoramic pictures from the middle of the lake. As I am sure anyone who knows me is aware…..this did not strike me as being a great idea. But…anyone who knows him……he was determined. We had had a couple of -10 celsius nights so it was as good as it was going to get……so the tour for the day took us down there.

It was a spectacular sunny, wintery sunny day. Crisp and bright. We , or should I say he..!!…was lucky to find a small group of people out on the lake with neat little ice boats. Like windsurfing only on ice with the person laying down like a luge.

Anyway……here are the resulting pictures…!!! ( I may have to grudgingly admit that they might have been worth it……..you still wouldn’t get me out there tho…!!!)

You can see that sheer drop of McIntyre Bluffs in the background of the pictures. It makes me take a deep breath every time I look at that drop…!!!

On the way home we took the scenic route up the east side of Skaha again and spotted these fellas just outside Okanagan Falls.

It seemed like a good fit to put together with a short walk we did to Hardy Falls. A 1km walk up to some very pretty falls. The trail was so well travelled it was solid ice the whole way. SO thick ice on this one rather than the thinner version Scott ventured out on…!!! The path has 8 bridges crisscrossing over the creek up to the falls at the end. I had thought from the map that we might be able to extend the walk further up the gully……but when you get to the falls its pretty much a sheer rock wall behind it. So no luck on going any further without some serious rock climbing equipment and a lot more rock climbing experience than I will ever have…..