The River Channel




Its a beautiful summer day in Penticton and the sun is shinning bright. Its probably thirty to thirty-five degrees and there are a lot of people out enjoying the weather. The best way to enjoy the weather in Penticton is to float the famous river channel. The river channel is a four kilometer river that runs from one end of town all the way to the other, joining Skaha and Okanagan lakes. It takes two hours to float half way and a four hours to float the whole way. This is the best way to enjoy a summer day because its very relaxing laying in the sun on a blow up mattress. Its convenient because you can lay and Tann the hole way, you can swim for exercise, or you could do a verity of both. At the top, middle, and bottom are stairs for easy loading and unloading. the water moves fast at the top so everyone your with has to tie there floating devices together so no one gets separated. There is great scenery with beautiful trees giving shade down parts of it and hundreds of fish to look at, chase, or feed, whichever you prefer. its only two feet deep in some spots of the river and a lot of seaweed so its a good idea to stay on your mattress at these areas. However it gets up to five or six feet deep in some spots and there is no seaweed, just little pebble rocks so it makes a great swimming place. There is usually over a hundred people going down everyday so that tell you its something you can do more than once.