Tim and I had to go to Winfield today to see someone, on the way home we stopped at Woody’s pub for lunch, it was pretty good. After lunch we went down Pelmewash Parkway, which was formerly part of the old highway that went through Oyma and Winfield. We got out of the car and took a walk, it was great! We don’t always get out of the car for a walk there, but sometimes coming back from Kelowna or something, we take that route to get off the highway for a bit. I remember before they took out the old highway how driving through Oyama always made my day, I always found that one of the best parts of the drive.
The sun was shining on our faces, we of course wore our sunglasses, we did not even need a jacket. It was a beautiful walk, and people were riding their bikes, jogging, roller blading, and walking. They even had a mini bike repair station there, which had wrenches, screw drivers, a tool to remove the tire from the rim, and an air hose all of these were attached with very thick cable which would be hard to break.
Near the water from the shore some people were fishing, We talked to one person and his young son, he had caught a couple of small perch, and commented on how he was only catching small ones today, although there have been some days the fish have been bigger from the same spot.
Out on the water, there were some ducks, it was great watching them dive for their snacks. They were very quick. There were also a couple of boats on the water, some people were water skiing, and some were wakeboarding behind their boat. There was one person that was wakeboarding, they must have just been learning, or not very good as they kept falling off the board into the water, it was pretty funny to watch.
Did you know that the Pelmewash Parkway is 7 km long? Okay, we didn’t walk the whole 7 kms but we still went for a nice walk there.
After our walk, driving on the highway on our way home, there was someone driving on the wrong side of the road. Yup, four lane highway, we were almost into Vernon just before Okanagan College, some guy was in the left lane driving towards us on our side of the highway instead of being across the road on the other side of the cement dividers. Luckily no one was not in the left lane at that time. Wow, that was so weird and kind of scary at the same time. The phone was not charged yet so we couldn’t phone the RCMP, I hope someone got to call it in without having an accident first.
That was the only mishap for the day, other than that it was a beautiful day, remember what my saying is “it’s always a good day when you can wear sunglasses”.
