I took a quick trip to the Okanagan on Saturday to deliver a new stove to the beach house, and to help in the annual spring cleanup. busylizzy went earlier with her sister. The work was almost done by the time I got there.
I like to enjoy the trip and have always loved driving the Hope-Princeton highway and beyond. The first photo is a quick stop just west of Sunshine Valley and just east of the famous Hope Slide.
I always stop at the Manning Park Lodge for a stretch and if the timing is right, a cup of coffee. There was a lot of snow still on the ground. It looks like winter there and this was early May.
There are some wonderful wood carvings at the entrance to the Lodge. This is one of them. I saw many deer and a black bear on this trip. Real ones!
I like stopping here. It is very inviting and the food is not too bad either.
A stop at Bromley Rock just past Princeton is obligatory. This is where we get rid of the coffee from the lodge that we have been sipping on for the last 100 Kilometres.
The red bridge just west of Keromeos has been freshly painted and looks quite striking in the late afternoon sun.
Cawston Valley and grape growing country, my very favourite stretch of road in all of BC.
Just click your tongue a few times and you too can pronounce Spotted Lake in the aboriginal language.
This is a better shot of the famous alkaline lake bed that is rather wet this time of year. This is just west of Osoyoos, before you descend steeply downward into the Okanagan Valley. At this point we pat our pockets to make sure we have our passports, and we know we are only minutes from our destination. Next post I will show you some of what we did this year at the property.
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