4 days in Osoyoos
Jun. 17th | Posted by Nicky
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Out in Stoneboat vineyards
We keep on putting off vacation… it’s this hope that “any month now” we will be whisking off to Ethiopia. So when Jrock had a couple of days between the end of one job and the beginning of the next, we left my visiting father in Kelowna and took off down south. We stayed at Hanes Point, which is this lovely provincial park in Osoyoos. It’s on an island with a land bridge, is covered in trees and our campsite had beach access. Osoyoos, for those of you know don’t know, is in Canada’s desert, (didn’t know we had desert? Yup! We do!) so it can get VERY hot. But the weather was cooperating and it was a cool (for Osoyoos) 25-29 each day, with cooler nights. Very nice. Oh, and if our pics don’t look very desert-like, it’s because we spent most of our time in the irrigated valley and the mountains surrounding.
Finding the cache at Hanes Point
We spend some lazy days – swimming in the lake (also bathing – thanks to biodegradable shampoo!), eating out a bit, hiking, running after the dogs on the dog beach, watching late night continuing education videos on the laptop in the trailer, visiting wineries (Twisted Tree, Burrowing Owl, Stoneboat, Nk’Mip, )and geocaching!
It was our first time geocaching… my dad nicely gave us a GPS to use months ago but it was the first time we had figured out how to use it. Basically, you look up the coordinates on a website (we use www.geocaching.com and looked it up in the Osoyoos library) and then go looking for hidden treasures. The caches have little trinkets in them that you can exchange (we left some toy frogs behind in each one), you sign the log book, and have a little fun while exploring. We decided it’ll be a super fun thing to do with the kids… excitement, getting outside, and toys!
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- Osoyoos Lake from our Campsite
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- A craggy tree up in the hills
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- The dog beach
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- A little cool off
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- She LOVES the heat – crazy spaniel
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- Eating brekkie in ‘Gordon’, our Bigfoot trailer
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- Laughlin: swimmer and finder of dead fish
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- Finding the cache at Hanes Point
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- Out in Stoneboat vineyards
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- View from Twisted Tree winery
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- finding another cache WAY up the mountain
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- ‘Someone’ typed in the wrong coordinates so we wandered here for 1/2 hour
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- A cache under a bridge
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- There it is!
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- Warning sign around the bridge – hilarious!
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- Bathing with the ducks – miraculously no mite bites.
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- A lovely shot of a marmot up on the hillside
Love all the pretty shots of Osoyoos.. we’re about 30-40 minutes north
I’ve always wanted to try geocaching, will have to pick up a GPS and get the fam into it!
Looks like a great little vacation – but it always looks like you two have so much fun.
Love the picture of you bathing with the ducks! Too funny!
I know Osoyoos… I spent a week there one afternoon for work.
Looks like fun!
OOh these make me homesick for Canada! Good Luck with your court date!