We arrived in the Kelowna area on Tuesday the 13th. The Okanagan valley where we are staying is famous for it’s fruit and vegetable production. There are also many vineyards and wineries in the area. Because there wen’t any campgrounds large enough available to accommodate our entire group we were spit into three campgrounds. Our campground held only ten trailers and we filled up the campground, they had requested the four seasonal campers to leave during our stay. Our host were wonderful, they have an organic apple orchard that grows grade AA Fancy Gala’s and Ambrosia apples. All of their apples are flown to Ontario and Quebec and are on the grocers shelves three days after picking. We also used their back yard for an evening meal and to listen to a bluegrass band that performed for us.
While we were in the area we had a winery tour and a tasting on Tuesday afternoon and toured a very large sawmill and plywood production plant on Wednesday. On Thursday we went on a bike ride on the Myra Canyon Trestles / Kettle Valley Railroad trail. On Friday we head off to Hope, BC.
Logs headed to the debarker and the into the mill.
Picture of the computer screen that analyzes the logs
for cutting. it takes 3 to 4 seconds for each log.
Oven that dries the veneer for the plywood.
It takes 9 to 12 minutes.
Applying the glue.
The press for laminating the plywood.
One of the trestles on our ride.
There were eighteen trestles in less than 5 miles.
More trestles.
View of Kelowna down in the Valley
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