We headed to Kelowna based on a recommendation of someone we met in the street in Victoria, and what could have been a let down turned out to be one the the best spots we've stopped thus far. Lake Okanagan is huge, in a really dry part of BC, with the township of Kelowna on the banks of one small section of the lake. The town survives on tourism, beaches and beautiful hot weather in summer and snow in winter, Big White is 45 min from town. The guy we rented our apartment from has moved here from London where he was running a ski shop and finding it increasingly tough to find good snow in Europe. He told us 6m of snow here is the considered a bad day. I told him not to bother coming to Australia to ski.
Our apartment was right on the water with a promenade passing beaches, a marina and stretching the next few kilometres ending in a huge park with plenty of shade, a free water park, swimming beach, playground and floating water obstacle course. There was no litter anywhere (imagine Oscar's excitement) and it was my perfect beach, a little bit of sand but mostly lush shady lawn. There are tourists around but it didn't feel overly crowded. The town was big enough to have great cafes, shops and of course winery shopfronts, I forgot to mention the Okanagan Valley is Canada's biggest wine producer. We could live here!
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