Manning Park to Oliver

From Manning Park we headed to Oliver, the ‘wine capital of Canada.’ As we only had one night in Oliver we could only fit in visits to three of the multitude of wineries in the area. These looked very much like Aussie wineries – except that sometimes you can’t go walking in the vineyards due to bear alerts.  Apparently most BC wine is purchased and enjoyed by BCers so no need to find markets elsewhere. We had no idea. We tried Tinhorn Creek, Gehringer Bros and Hester Creek – all excellent.

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Vaseux Lake, Okanagan Valley. Bears had been sighted earlier in the day. 

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A 15 year battle still ongoing to establish a park in Okanagan Valley – preservation v productive farm land
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Okanagan Valley vineyards