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Fort Steele, located near Cranbrook (1999):

This is the entrance building for Fort Steele, which is about a 15 minute drive north-east of Cranbrook. The building has the year 1898 on it. (47 kb)

Board sidewalks and a well dressed worker makes the place come alive. (47 kb)

The fence and Kootenay River behind Fort Steele. [The larger photos is not available until I get permission to use it.] (47 kb)

The Balfour ferry (1999):

While crossing Kootenay Lake, the Balfour ferry is seen approaching us. (47 kb)

The Balfour ferry passes at a safe distance. (47 kb)

Looking at the rear of our ferry. (47 kb)

North-east of Nelson (1999):

Our campsite with an excellent view of the lake. (47 kb)

Our view of the lake. (44 kb)
Photo taken later in the day.

North-east of Nelson is the neat little town of Kaslo. This is called the Mystic Convenience store. (41 kb)

Nelson (1999):

In a Nelson park we found this tent which offered the tourist folk music and food. (48 kb)

Behind the tent we found a small park full of a new version of the 1969 hippy. (42 kb)

Nearby was this garden and an environmentally friendly house made of bales of straw. (47 kb)

BC Highways (2009 photographs):

View of the old highways which wind through the hills next to the lake. (356 kb)

The new and old highways, between Vernon and Kelowna both nearby and as it winds its way along the other side of the bay. (367 kb)

This is the Coquihalla highway. It was built using the shortest route across the mountains, often going straight over them. So the time to get to Vancouver from Kamloops was cut in half. (360 kb)

The Okanogan(except for the first two photographs, 2009):

View of Osoyoos from the south-east.
A 1975 photograph. (47 kb)

A water park in Penticton.
[taken in 1999]. (48 kb)

This is a new 2009 photograph of
the view looking east from
a viewpoint located south
of Vernon, just off the
new highway. (245 kb)

These are houses built along the lake. This is a 2009 morning photograph. (406 kb)

This is the sculpture near the Kelowna shore. While I was taken this photograph in the early morning, these people came by. I never knew you could play a guitar and run a skateboard at the same time. (354 kb)

View of the lake in the evening. (356 kb)

This is a farm in a more fertile area of the Okanogan, north of Vernon. (255 kb)

The Kelowna boat dock. You need to remember your boat's address if you expect to find it here. (342 kb)

This is Mount Robson, located north of the Okanogan on the Yellowhead route, closer to Jasper Alberta.
As you approach the mountain from the south, this is what it looks like. See Mountain Park photographs for a huge enlarged photograph of this mountain and more information on it. (358 kb)