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Further down Penticton Creek

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Yesterday I posted about the bridge over Penticton creek but today I’m moving about 400 metres (1300 ft) further along to where the creek empties into Okanagan Lake.

By this time of year, this creek is usually moving very slowly, desultorily, somnolently with only a little water trickling through the centre of this channel.

This year, however, it’s a regular river with lots of water and very happy trees and ducks. After years of drought, this verdant growth is wonderful to see!

And here it joins the lake, adding to the lake’s water level and giving everyone on the bridge another lovely view.

Happy Tuesday.

22 thoughts on “Further down Penticton Creek”

    1. The drought – accompanied by terrible forest fires, of course – meant that we were also enveloped in smoke, too. This area is naturally dry since it’s classified as semi-arid desert, but it wasn’t getting anywhere near the rain it was supposed to be getting, either. So yes, because of the recent past history, people here do worry a lot about rain. Some regularity about it is a good thing!

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  4. It is always nice when our waterways flow with rain water. So nice to see the rain and we are happy to pay the price with a few cool days. Happy Tuesday Lynette. Allan

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    1. It has been especially important up north with all the those fires needing to be doused. We have had a few cooler days too mixed with sun and I definitely don’t mind that. Yes, rivers and creeks with water in them is a very good thing!

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    1. It really has been a relief, Belinda. 23 and 24 were particularly bad with lots of fires and such heat and drought. It certainly was quite terrible, so much so that the Ironman race was moved to Ottawa because of the smoke.

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      1. Nice, our Mojave Desert may get some rain in a week or so according to The Weather Channel, the moisture will be more in Arizona for a bit before it makes it up here which is how it seems to work…

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    1. It’s a wonderful area and fantastic to see it doing so well now after a struggle for water. Okanagan Lake is pretty big (135 km long and 4-5 km wide, so it’s a deep fjord lake) and its water content did drop significantly, especially because it was being used as a water source for the fires, but the drop amazingly wasn’t all that visually noticeable.

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