Kelowna Weekend Getaway in the Fall. Three Must-do activities.

Hey everyone, we are on our second annual trip to the Okanagan Valley. Yeah, and we're going to be meeting up with friends to go and pick some fruit. And we'll be cycling the Kettle Valley Rail Trestles and checking out a winery or two. Kelowna is located in the Okanagan Valley in eastern British Columbia, Canada. We've just arrived here at the Bear Creek Campground in Kelowna, BC and it's looking pretty nice. But one trouble is Starlink. We're pretty treed in again here, so I'm going to go up and try and put it in the best spot that I can. One important thing to note about Starlink is that in a heavily treed situation, it's pretty much useless. So I've had it running for about two hours now and I've got nothing. I tried to put it up here on the front of the trailer because the back of the trailer is like very covered in trees. But even with the amount of open sky that I have right above me, it just doesn't seem to be picking up any satellites. So I have to say again, Starlink on its own is not a reliable internet device to have just by itself. You've always got to bring some kind of like LTE or cell device along with you as a backup. We are back at the Painter's Fruit Market and you might remember we were here last year picking fruit and we'll link to that video somewhere around here. But this year we brought friends! We are so happy our friends Christine and Sal can make it. Hello guys, let's go pick some fruit now. So we just got a little bit of disappointing news. Apparently because of the weather this spring, things froze and there is no fruit to pick. You'll just have to watch our video from last year where we did pick fruit. On to plan B. We've got to figure out what plan B is. The girls are simultaneously calling all of the fruit places in Kelowna, seeing if there's anyone that has fruit that we can pick. I'm calling West Bank, which one are you calling? Things are looking better. We found a place that has apples and pears. So we did find some apples even though it's been a very bad year for harvest. Look at the size of this pear. That's huge compared to the other one. Look, size comparison. Mission accomplished. We've got some Italian prune plums. I'm gonna make some cake with that and we got our pears. I might make a pie with those. All right, now that we've got fruit, we're going back to the campsite and we're gonna have a late lunch. All right, we just had our lunch slash dinner and we decided it's time to go for a little bit of a walk. So we're going to hit up the Canyon Rim Trail. Well, bighorn sheep live here. They like the grasslands and the rocky cliffs and everything, so maybe we'll see some. That would be really cool. National geographic, like right there. So one thing we're testing out here is our new fire ring. We figure there's not a whole lot of wood in Baja when we go this winter, so now we have propane fire. So it has a couple different settings. This is medium and it's actually putting off a reasonable amount of heat. Let's see, it can go down. That's low. Oh, for goodness sake. Tiny little bitty fire. What's raging? Back to medium and then all the way up to maximum, which that's actually, yeah, that's warm. All right, we are up and dressed and ready to go for our biking adventure on the Kettle Valley Rail Trail. All right, so this section of the Kettle Valley Rail Trail has 18 trestles on it. It's 12 kilometers long and that is why it's so popular and interesting, is because the trestles where trains would go over are these beautiful bridges in the canyon and on a clear day we get lots of amazing views. Today we are enjoying the mysterious fog. And it looks like we could find some animals here. Lots of different animals. Lynx, bobcat, cougar, wolverines, bears, coyotes. I just think it's super cool that we live here in Hope, which is the farthest, one of the farthest points of the KVR. And here we are, all the way here. And I've only, yeah, I've cycled here and then to Summerland and a bit in Princeton. Yeah, it's really pretty in so many different ways and there's just so much history. All right, we made it to Ruth Station. So it was about 11 kilometers. It wasn't quite as far as we thought. It took us an hour and a half and that was with a lot of stopping and taking pictures. So it's not a massively long trail. And all flat, 16 meters gain. Perfect for Mel's bike. And really cool with the fog too. Yes, that was nice coming in and out of the fog. I would definitely recommend starting at Murrah Station and coming to Ruth because most of the trestles are towards that side. So if you happen to be traveling without a bicycle, as we often do, no fretting, you can actually rent a bike here. You can also walk it, it just takes a lot longer to do. And you might not be able to walk the entire thing because it is 12 kilometers each way. But yeah, you can rent a bike and that's pretty cool. Renting the bikes is at the Murrah Station end of the trail, so make sure All right everyone, so you might remember. No, I totally messed up. All right, here we go. We're rolling. Wait, wait, my mic is touching. What do you think? I think it's good. I didn't turn on my mic though because you told me I didn't need to talk. This would have picked it up just fine. And this is getting to the cidery. Make sure you don't miss the next video by liking, subscribing and turning on notifications. Thanks for joining us and we'll see you in the next one.