The Red Chair spent the Christmas and New Year’s holidays in the Thompson Okanagan region 0f BC. He shared Christmas celebrations with Sue and Dann and their family at A View to Remember in West Kelowna and then was handed over to innkeepers Tanya and Rocky at Pineacre on the Lake in Peachland to ring in the New Year. With lots of snow on the ground in the Okanagan, Red had a wonderful White Christmas, and boy does he look good on white!
Outdoor ice hockey at Big White Ski Resort
Red is contemplating how to get up the 60 ft. ice-climbing tower at Big White
Handing over the Red Chair from West Kelowna to Peachland
After the Christmas celebrations at A View to Remember B&B, Sue took Red to Big White Ski Resort for an awesome day of fresh air and Okanagan powder! Red enjoyed a snowmobile tour and a horse drawn carriage ride, checked out the gondola and the ice climbing wall, and laced up a pair of skates to take part in that quintessential Canadian winter sport, outdoor ice hockey, his own version of the Winter Classic! He showed a real aptitude for hockey, so maybe we’ve got another Wayne Gretzky in the making (with a little more practice)!
Red loved his week at A View to Remember and all the great things he saw in the West Kelowna area, but it was time to meet some new innkeepers at Pineacre on the Lake in Peachland. Sue got together with Tanya for the handover. Pineacre on the Lake B&B is located right on
Making many friends at the Peachland Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s Day 2016
Lake Okanagan, and guests, including Red, staying in any of their three self-contained suites enjoy stunning views of the lake year round. Their own private dock offers great opportunities for watersports and soaking up some of the great Okanagan sunshine. Peachland is a small and charming lakefront community with beautiful level beaches, great golf, vineyards, summer time Craft and Farmers Markets, and lots of water activities of course. Tanya took Red to check out the Peachland Museum, a unique 8-sided BC heritage building, and he was reminded of his school days. Red and Tanya walked the Peachland waterfront and enjoyed the fabulous views of the lake and stopped by at the Peachland Bell Clock. Peachland’s other claim to fame is its bats. Yes, bats! In fact, the town has one of the largest bat colonies in the province and they’ve found a home in a heritage school house. As a result of the bats, Peachland has very few problems with mosquitoes, and their droppings, or guano, is sold locally as fertilizer.
Red visits the Peachland museum and is reminded of his school days.
Happy New Year!
at the end of the dock in Peachland
New Year’s Eve brought bubbly and hats and noisemakers and congenial company. To celebrate New Year’s Day and the start of another great year of the Red Chair Travels, Red took a brave dip into Lake Okanagan at the Polar Bear Swim! Now he’s a REAL Canadian!
Soon it was time to say goodbye again and Red hopped on another bus to travel through the snow covered mountains all the way to the Kootenay Rockies region in eastern BC. Here he’ll find his next “home away from home” at Courthouse B&B Revelstoke, just like regular B&B guests do when touring BC with B&B!