Destiny Beach Resort Osoyoos

... in the afternoon who were also spending the night. We all enjoyed a fantastic evening in the yard with some of the best pizza in the West, drinks, song and lots of laughs.

Early night....no really it was....up early tomorrow. Going to drive to Cranbrook, BC for the night and then back home on Sunday.

... to tell you about.

We did include some pic's of where we are staying....it is beautiful here and always makes us wonder why we don't live in a place with weather like this. 45+ degrees, sunny and wonderful. Yeah, that is hot but with a pool it's a lot of fun!

Wie wir von einigen Leuten aus der Schweiz mitbekommen haben, soll es bei euch ja heiss sein. Bei uns war es heute 37 Grad, im Camper hatten wir sogar 42 Grad gemessen! Viel zu heiss also, um etwas zu unternehmen, deshalb verbrachten wir heute fast den ganzen Tag am Campingplatz eigenen Beach am See. Scheinbar der wärmste See in Canada.

... was do we split this ride into 2 easy days or do we push on to Oliver, BC where there are friends with a pool and beer. Not a hard choice....we pushed on to Oliver! By Todd's guess this ride was going to be about 700km's and would take us through the Northern Cascade Mountains.

Morning was beautiful. First day we didn't start out with liners in our gear. The ride north was great with little traffic and beautiful tree ...

Heute fuhren wir weiter nach Hope. Dort suchten wir vergebens eine Schweizer Bäckerei...
Danach fuhren wir Richtung Manning Provincial Park, in welchem wir eigentlich übernachten wolltern. Leider war war unser bevorzugter Campingplatz voll und wir beschlossen, nach einem kurzen Aufenthalt, weiter nach Osoyoos zu fahren.

... Went to Canada for Chinese food! Got extra harrassment by both border patrols becuase the large 16 year old in the group had no photo ID!

Got back relaxed, had evening snack, and went to bed in individual beds, mine even had two pillows! Slept about 8-9 hours! Woke up to song birds!

... and cacti + view curlew, bobolink, lazuli bunting Day 15 was a full day of birding [excepting a sensible siesta time in the afternoon]. 4-30am start birding - vaseux cliffs - chukar - no wrens Vaseux Lake - beaver river road Vaseux Lakes and cliffs

Barter Fair was an amazing growing experience this year. Vendors sold everything from homemade jewelry and jams to handmade patchwork skirts and delicious food. At night we were welcomed with the energy of fire. All around were people dancing with fire and those enlightening us with drumbeats and primal music that speaks volumes to your base chakra. Women twirled balls of poi that flamed and men danced loosely with staves. Friends came together. We ...

... new, very nice and clean but you're squished pretty close to your neighbor. Coincidently, the biggest wine festival in the Okanogan occurs here every fall and we arrived 2 days early. About 100,000 people attend so we bought our event tickets for the "Festival of Grapes" right away, met up with other people from Alberta and got ready to party - some have been coming for 9 years. Things started off with a parade of all the participating wineries. The ...

... Surrounded by mountains - snow topped - and close to a beautiful lake. Saw elks as we were driving from the airport and deer apparently come right up to the house and eat all the plants in the garden. For those of you who may be trying to contact me by mobile phone, I'm afrad Wasa is out of range. So I'm not ignoring you if there is no reply. Hope all is going as well for you as it is for me. Love Mum, Judy, Judith.