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Spotted Lake
Spotted lake (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Lake) has a high concentration of minerals; it dries up in the summer to form the spots. Minerals include: magnesium sulfate, calcium and sodium sulphates with some titanium and silver. The magnesium sulfate crystallizes as it dries producing the spot colour.
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Lookouts over Osoyoos
The first photo is from highway 3 coming in from the west; the remaining photos are from Anarchist Mountain Lookout on the other side of the Lake – taken as the sun was going down.
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Swiws (Haynes Point) Provincial Park
Note: click on the title above and then on one of the photos to browse the actual photos. The ones below are only thumbnails – in some cases cropped to fit into a square grid.
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Tree Island
Another interesting example of a name change is a small island near the tip of Denman Island off the coast of Vancouver Island. I think it was called Tree Island. The new aboriginal name has a number 7 in it. Again, I think the name change is great but I don’t know how to pronounce…
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Osoyoos Waterfront
The three photos below were taken along the Osoyoos waterfront in the morning. Osoyoos is in the middle of Osoyoos lake where the lake narrows. You aren’t seeing the other side of the lake in the photos. The lake is much larger. What you are seeing is a ‘spit’ – originally called Haynes Point Provincial…
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