Apples, Cherries, Stupid Awnings and CANADA!! EH??!!!

May 27, 2016

Haynes Point Provincial Park, Osoyoos, Canada

I’m sitting on our couch along the dinette writing this blog with a magnificent view of Osoyoos Lake, watching ducklings with their momma’s and listening to about 20 different bird calls.

Our drive today went through apple and cherry orchards.  Fruit stands a plenty and a beautiful drive along the Columbia River…can’t beat that for a road trip.

Left Leavenworth at a reasonable time knowing that we only had a few hours of driving until crossing the border.  Well, we thought only a few hours.  We have a “group text” of all 7 of us.  Noticed that Jeanette and Barb sent out a cry for help that their “electric” awning was not working and to manually close it would be a big hassle and according to directions and call to ZipDee, NOT EASY.  So, we were in close proximity to come in and help.  Oh my goodness, what a mess.  Would not recommend an electric awning.  NOPE.  not happening.  Was quite an afternoon, but 3 hours later and lots of Gorilla Tape, they were on the road.  

We crossed the Border with NO difficulties.  Didn’t even ask us any questions.  Bummer, I was all read up on what we could and could not cross into Canada with and we limited so many things, and nothing.  He liked Bodie.  oh well. 

 Into Canada and just about 5km (3.2m) gotta go the km route now!, we came to our first and very beautiful Provincial Park.  Haynes Point sits on the Osoyoos Lake.  Our view is stunning, really quite beautiful.  A big bird watching paradise.  We saw a bald eagle as we crossed the border. Canada has the Provincial Park system which is similar to our State Park system.  The seem to all be located on lakes and we are trying to only stay in Provincial Parks. Kevin had his shorts on in no time and took a nice swim.  Literature states it is the warmest lake in all of BC.  No hookups of any sort, nice bathrooms and we should be fine with our solar panels.  Hey, we tented it for decades.  Big step us for us.

Just really enjoying this view right now  Looking forward to a coffee log along the lake in the morning, a swim and a bike ride before we head off to the next Provincial Park about 140 miles north.  

Haynes Point Provincial Park - Osoyoos, B