Kaloya Regional Park | Okanagan Valley, BC 🇨🇦

Hey guys, sorry about that. The zoom on this thing is so weird. I don't know, it has this automatic zoom. I can't figure it out. It's been years since I've had this. I don't get it. Anyways, today we are at Kalamata Lake here. We're gonna go for a rip into Oyama and I don't think we've filmed Kaloya Park yet. Kaloya is an amazing little regional park in Oyama which is part of Lake Country obviously in British Columbia here. We're gonna cruise down the Okanagan Rail Trail, get to Oyama, stop at the store, purchase some healthy things. Sorry a bunch of people came and I got really embarrassed. Anyways, to finish where I started, yeah we're gonna do that. Get to Kaloya where we can go swimming and the water is so freaking blue right now. I've almost never seen it this blue. It's amazing and we're headed into another heat wave here in September so stay tuned. Alright we're heading down Crystal Waters Trail here towards the Okanagan Rail Trail and there's a bit of information here and some old pictures of Oyama back in the day. It is an old fruit growing town I believe. Orchards. There's still a lot of orchards here. Yeah this is where they used to transport fruit on Kalamalka Lake. They did a bit of an explanation about how Wood Lake and Kalamalka Lake used to be a portage but then they eventually dug a canal and now you can get through. Alright so a little interesting thing here is that this property which used to be a campsite I believe is being turned into this luxury resort thing here and we actually used to go down here and it was private at one time and then it was kind of open. People would go down there and stuff and there's actually an old gas station here. This is where the campsites were up here but they've cleared it out. So yeah they're selling off these condos. Pretty fantastic looking if you've got millions of dollars and we're gonna go down here and check if this is still open. Maybe see it one last time before they make it into a development and check out this amazing little spot down here. There's an old dock. The water is extremely low. I've never been down here when it was like this but yeah this is gonna be a private beach for those condo owners up there. It's nice to be able to come down here one last time. Fair bit of beach too. Makes me want to go in. Nice sandy spot here. Perfect for a campsite. Pretty nice spot again. I'll go over there. There's an old gas pump over there. That's nice. Last time we came there was like an open house type of thing on this property and they were bringing people down. There's a person over there. As far as I know there isn't any no trespassing signs. I haven't seen any so I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong here but all beaches are legal to walk on as long as you're below the shoreline. So I'm not technically doing anything wrong here anyway but I just don't want people to see me anyway. Found some wild plums along the way. Look at this. This tree's just loaded. Little mini plums. So cool. Okay guys we're just coming up on Oyama here. There is a nice stop here called the OKF Grill and they've got really good food there and it's overlooking the lake. That's Wood Lake on the other side. Another really beautiful lake here and we're gonna go into the convenience store which also has a lot of stuff and check it out. So this is one of Oyama's main beaches. It's called Station Beach. I think there used to be a train station here. That's the reason for that but look at how beautiful that is. Wood Lake right there. Really looking blue today. Not quite like Kalamalka but still really nice and we had the whole beach to ourselves so I think we're gonna stop here hydrate a little bit. For our hydration today we are going with a local refreshment. That's Okanagan Spring 1516 and that is out of Vernon there so great beer all around. Never heard anyone complain about it. So we made a left-hand turn and we are headed down to Kaloya Regional Park and along the way there's actually Pioneer Park as well. That's another public beach there but Kaloya is the gem and that's where we're going. Okay here's a map of Kaloya Regional Park. Big park too. Lots of geese. We're gonna ride around the tip. Hopefully get a good spot out there. Okay so there are several nice beaches here at Kaloya. As you can see fantastic spot here and this is really where everyone launches their kayaks and paddle boards. We got some wild blackberries here. Just a few. Everyone snagged the rest obviously unless you go way back there probably somewhere. Here we are at the tip of Kaloya. We didn't get the best spot. The best spot is just right around this corner but we're satisfied. Nonetheless and you can see there's spots all along the tip of the peninsula here. The water's It's pure shade so we're just waiting. We were waiting for the sun but it ain't coming so I'm going in. Look at that water. Fish everywhere. It's so blue it's like Gatorade. Water doesn't get much bluer than that. Oh toodles guys. It's been a great day here at Kaloya.