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I used to be completely satisfied after we left the shadows of the brooding peaks to descend into the Okanagan Valley the place we was hoping (and I anticipated) to work out the Ogo Pogo, the mythical monster of Lake Okanagan. regrettably, the dragon proved reluctant. We solaced ourselves through gorging at the exceptional end result for which the valley can be recognized. TO OUR shock, Mutt shared our urge for food and for 3 days ate not anything yet fruit. He most well-liked peaches, muskmelon, and cherries. Cherries have been his undoubted favourites. at the start, he had difficulty with the pits yet quickly perfected a slightly disquieting skill to squirt them out among his entrance tooth. now not everybody favored this. I bear in mind the baleful glance directed at him through a girl passenger at the little ferry during which we crossed the Okanagan River. Mutt used to be definitely a imaginative and prescient to offer one pause as he sat within the rumble seat, goggles driven excessive up on his brow, consuming cherries out of a six-quart basket. After each one cherry he might elevate his muzzle, aspect it overside, and nonchalantly spit the pit into the fairway torrent of the river. My so much loved photographs of the mountain state weren't of the forbidding peaks yet of the animals. there has been little or no human site visitors at the lately built roads however the Others have been fast to use those new pathways. numerous occasions we needed to yield the ideal of strategy to herds of elk; two times to events of mountain goats (who stared at us with a haughty golden glare); and as soon as to a grizzly sow along with her offspring—she rose up on her hind legs in the midst of the line and seemed down upon us as we crouched apologetically in our little vehicle. moreover, we observed ratings of black bears; a lithe shadow slinking right into a stand of lodgepole pines—I was once confident it used to be a cougar; my first-ever wolves (a relatives noticeable distantly as they crossed an alpine meadow in unmarried file); and innumerable smaller creatures together with rabbit-like rock conies, chipmunks, and squirrels of forms I had no longer met earlier than. Then there have been the birds. That spring Angus had acquired me a box consultant and with its aid I pointed out 40 species that have been new to me, starting from the minute miracle of a rufous hummingbird to golden eagles hovering either less than and above us as Eardlie nervously negotiated cliff-clinging roads. i didn't understand how terribly fortunate i used to be to be seeing the residing global of the excessive rock state in an abundance of numbers and diversity of forms nearly as nice as had existed sooner than the coming of eu guy. fortunately, i couldn't understand how extraordinarily they might be lowered in the span of my very own lifetime. in the end we reached Vancouver and observed the ocean, yet didn't meet it till we got here to leisure on a strip of seashore at the coast of Vancouver Island. We camped on Rathtrevor seashore for 3 weeks and that i found one other new international. This one used to be ruled no longer via mountains yet by means of the mysterious comings and goings of the tides; of massive translucent swells bursting upon offshore reefs; of flotsam and jetsam starting from the trunks of historical timber ten toes in diameter to baseball-sized, eco-friendly glass jap fishing floats which had drifted around the virtually unbelievable width of the Pacific.