next time, we'll bring a putter

 It's september 8th.  time to get our adventure on.  in a canoe. on okanagan lake. camping.

so we did.  it started when i picked up tom from his new place.  pretty sweet.  Hi rita.
Next were the usual stops.  grocery store and beer store.

Then, off to peachland and find a place to launch.

We headed across okanagan lake on a hot saturday.  not the best idea in a canoe due to tons of boats, but we couldn't wait for all the oil to dry up to have the lake to ourselves.

we headed for rattlesnake island.  We pulled the canoe into a sweet cove on the small bare grassy rock island.

the sweet cove on rattlesnake island

SPOILER ALERT!! no rattlesnakes were seen.

old fire pit?? on rattlesnake island

It was a very cool place.  great views of the lake, a cool cove to land, and the mingolf course.  seriously.  In the middle of okanagan lake is an abandoned minigolf course.

one of the holes.  pretty cool.

weird story.  it involves hostage taking in labanon.  seriously.  heres the link. it'll open in another window.

bank off the wall, down the rock face, past the stump and boom... hole in 12.

rattlesnake island and hostage taking

after an hour on the island, we made for Reluctant Dragon Cove.  seriously, its a place.

landing in reluctant dragon cove.

we got there and it was still pretty busy, so we just kinda hung out until the place cleared out a bit.  then we got a fire ripping (lots of firewood was brought over in the canoe), set up our tens, cook and began to really set about the place.  whatever that means.

tom.... showing us what "setting about the place" looks like

looking north from our camp

We did some exploring up a rocky place near the campsite, but with sandels and shorts, the roses were pretty crazy-ass.

we tried to get up there.  in flip flops.  don't do it.

tom, coming through the roses... bleeding

sun going down over peachland.  view from the climb.

back at camp, bleeding.

Back at camp, the sky got pretty cool and then, out of nowhere, an austin martin DB-77 rips by.  didn't expect that.

like i said... cool sky & an austin martin

peachland lights.

evening on reluctant dragon cove

In the morning we packed up and got on the lake before any major boats did, but not before a pretty big wind did.  We didn't really pay attention to where we parked the truck the day before, but karma led us right to it.

Pretty awesome trip.  Thanks to tom for being a sweet co-pilot.  happy birthday dood.

Next weekend is road trip to MB to pick up my old car.  should be an adventure of a bit of a different breed, but an adventure still.

stay tooned.