Osoyoos: Okanagan River Walk, 18kms, 25C, warm autumn day

A Little Bit Like Spain...

Turns out that today the walk was indeed special. It was as close to finding a walk like the Plata as I have come across since returning home. Particularly the return journey when I walked on alone at my preferred pace. Very peaceful and meditative.

We started off in the morning warmth at about 10:30 and continued just over 9kms and into the mid-day heat. Given Annemarie has not been training a whole lot we decided to cross a bridge at that point and walk back on the other side of the river enjoying our own pace and time to ourselves. What follows are simple pictures from the day as we walked through the vineyards and orchards...we essentially had the trail to ourselves.

Migrant workers from Mexico were in some of the fields and orchards as we passed.  At one beautiful orchard as I stopped to photograph the colourful apples one of the workers offered to pick us each an apple and to bring it up to the trail for us...Annemarie commented that it was such a Camino like moment...and she was right.

The fall colors were outstanding, reflecting on the river that was so very calm in many areas.

All too soon it was over, but we decided to return here and walk the entire trail next time. Of course, we saw eagles and hawks and other animals...but no turtles. We consoled ourselves by driving north to Penticton to buy three bottles of the excellent Thornhaven Gewürztraminer that we had sampled the day before and enjoyed in past years...won the Gold last year and a bronze this year...still excellent! We then stopped in to taste some other estate wines and purchased a couple more bottles to put in the cellar:-)