holiday in a holiday

Hi, I am back from our holiday in British Columbia (it's not actually British!). Here are some of the highlights for me:
We were at the beach in Sicamous and I saw a helicopter take off about 15 metres away! It was very cool, especially seeing the jet engine's exhaust pipe. When I say beach, it was actually on a huge lake. There was a swing bridge for the very frequent cargo trains and all the houseboats for hire (not on the bridge). At Sicamous there were also boxes of fireworks for purchase at a corner shop! They cost $50 each and you could only set them off on private land. On the way there were a lot of corn fields and on the way to Kelowna there were lots of red barns.
In Kelowna there was a man-made salmon breeding (spawning) creek for the salmon to lay and fertilise their eggs. All the salmon come from the Pacific Ocean and only the strongest make it here. They are called Kokanee salmon.  The special channel has rocks of just the right size for the eggs to sit in, has the right amount of water flow and is clean, compared to the main creek, which is degraded and polluted. All the postcards say 'salmon this', 'salmon that' 'I love the fishing here'.
In the mountains we went for a hike in the rain and found Little Lost Lake. On another hike to Kinney Lake, there was tons of mushrooms of different shapes and colours - brown, pink and white, but mostly brown.
Most of the hotels had watersides and breakfast rooms with delicious waffle makers. But the wi-fi in all the hotels was pretty bad :-( The best waterslide was open (not a tunnel) and fast and you could go on your knees. The beaches were just like the ocean, even with little waves made by the speedboats, pretty cold and with sand you could make sandcastles with, except the water was not salty.

                                                           bye for now! - Michael