Marmotville

Days 17, 18 & 19. Thursday, May 7 through Saturday, May 9.


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It was a very rainy drive from Sasquatch Provincial Park east to the Okanogan Valley. The road wound up through the mountains and eventually broke through the weather for some much needed sun. The countryside was very pretty and all different names of the places are very fun to say with a Canadian accent: Kamloops, Osoyoos, Kelowna, Okanogan, Kooteney. That's a hoot, eh?

The drive took a while but we finally made it to Kekuli Bay Provincial Park overlooking beautiful Kalamalka Lake. The campsites were spread out and on tiers up the side of the hill so they all had views of the water. Also, all of the hills that the campsites sat on were completely infested with marmots; more on that later.





The next day was drive-free and Casey and I were itching to out in kayaks on the perfectly still waters of the lake and we took Harvey into the nearby town of Vernon to rent some but we apparently were a couple weeks early in the season and were denied. Since we were in wine country we also contemplated checking out some wineries, but we agreed we were in a much better mood to do nothing than to drive the RV around. So we just hung out at the campground and read, walked, and played Bananagrams.





The whole while Niko defended us from evil marmots that seemingly had us surrounded.






The next day we packed up to head back west toward Vancouver. We took a slightly longer way back to hit the BC Wildlife Park in Kamloops to get a preview of all the cool stuff we were going to see as we headed north into Canada:







After that we drove to Vancouver to get ready for Andy, Melissa, and Clara to arrive the following morning. One last thing I need to share though. On the way we stopped for gas and had a most unusual encounter. Since good ol' Harv is not that maneuverable, we had to sit and wait about ten minutes for this to happen:



I swear this woman had never bought gas before. All the other pumps were open, too. Anyway, congrats lady, you made the blog.