Tubing on the Penticton channel

Penticton is located between TWO lakes - Okanagan and Skaha. There is a channel that connects the two lakes and one of the big things to do here is to float down the channel. Normally this can take 4 - 5 hours, but the Okanagan lake is quite high so the damn hasn't been closed as much as it could be and there is a LOT of run off from the mountains so it doesn't take that long. Anyway - these guys have done this a LOT. Here are the pictures to prove how organized they are!!!!!

Getting all the dingys organized. There were SEVEN of us going!!!!

Carrying the dingys to the water

 Oh yes and why would we use dingys rather than tubes. Well first the water is COLD still and we took a LOT of stuff with us. Just wait!!!!!

Tieing the dingys together so we could float as a group. I don't think the girls were all that thrilled. But it was way more fun to all be together. And SAFER

Bye - see you guys later!!!!

Floating down the channel

Attack by ducks!!!!!   I guess people feed them so they come out when the dingys go by

There is a little restaurant half way down the channel and we stopped there for lunch. Donna guarded the dingys

Oh did I mention that Penticton has ELVIS fever. There just had the 10th Anniversary of Elvis impersonators and this place is called RELVIS. The guy is a native to the area and sings while people go down the channel. They also have the most amazing french fries and hamburgers.

The girls with RELVIS

While we were stopped - it started to rain!  Oh great!  There was Donna trying to open her umbrella in the dingy!!!

This was hysterical because when she got it open - it opened up inside out!!!!!  We almost died laughing!!!!!

Then back in the dingys and here is Donna rowing a bit!!!!  Trying to change her PRINCESS image!!!!!

See how calm it was and not many people on the channel

Once we got to the end of the channel, we floated a bit in the lake. Devin kept having to drag us back to shore

Ooops - no one was paying attention and now we were a tad further out than we needed to be. So Devin and Marilyn had to swim us back to shore!!!!

Marilyn decided that she wanted to get on the chair insteda of in the dingy. Now we are in four feet of water and Marilyn is NOT Twiggy! Oh my god - it was absolutely hysterical to see. She is lucky that I was at the other end of the row of dingys, BUT I managed to capture this picture. 



Marilyn's leg!!!!   And her hand!!!   The rest of her - in the water!!!!!!

  Now if you want to see how prepared these girls on on the channel float - have a look at this. The girls like their cocktails.

Marilyn with her container of spices for the glass rim

The celery!!! 

The finished drink!!!!!!

The cavalry coming to rescue us. WAIT - we aren't ready even though we had been on the water for HOURS.

Then back home - what a cool way to spend the day.


One of the guys that I went on the Tour Arctic with last year lives in Penticton. I gave him a call and he came over and we had a visit. It was weird because he knows my brother!!!!   How small is the world!!!!

Alex and I

Have a great day!!!!

Ciao!!!!!!