Archive for July 16th, 2008

Road Trip: day 2

First I was say sorry about not updating this sooner things have been crazy busy. Day two started out very early after camping at Mannin park I set off towards penticton. I made as many stops along the way as I could, a lot of the problem was that there was no where to pull over to take pictures which was a real tease becuase I saw some very stunning scenery.

Camp.

This was supposedly a beaver pond, I didn’t see any signs of beavers though.

Much of the road was like this.

I noticed there are a lot of very small parks along the way not like what I am used to with huge parks that you could spend weeks in and not be in the same place.

The next stop was Hedley which was quite a stop. This is a tiny town that used to be a mining town, there was a gold and silver mine that opened in the late 1800’s and closed in the 1950’s. There is much of the old mine left and I wish I had know more about it so I could have gone on a tour but I did not look into until once I got back because I did not know it even existed.

The view of Hedley from a mountain I hiked up the side of to get a closer look at some of the mine stuff. Yes that is the whole town.

I had some extra time to kill so I decided to take the longer route though Osoyoos and on the way I saw the spotted lake. I was not able to get a good picture as it was fenced off and the light was very poor.

I got into Peachland around dinner time. The drive was very nice even though it was very hot, there was very little traffic the whole way except from Summerland to Peachland.