It was Remembrance Day, and after the ceremonies the sun was out, and a hike was in order in the afternoon. It had been a long time since Bonnie had been to Hardy Falls, so we left with Tia in the back seat of the Honda, and headed for Peachland. It was chilly (4C) so parkas and gloves were necessary.
Hardy Falls trail is located about 2 kms west of Peachland. It takes about 15 - 25 minutes to get to the water fall. The flat and level path is well maintained. You follow Deep Creek which flows out of the water fall, and then empties into Okanagan Lake at Antlers Beach. This is an active spawning channel, and although we did not see any salmon there were signs up and ribbon preventing you from going down to the creek. We assumed the tape had been put up during spawning season (to the end of October) when the creek would have been full of spawning salmon.
The water fall, although not huge or fast flowing, looked beautiful with the fall colors.
After the Hardy Falls hike we stopped in Peachland and hiked for about 45 minutes on the boardwalk along Okanagan Lake, and then stopped at "The Bliss" Bakery for a coffee and cheese/ham bun for me, and a pumpkin flavored latte and butter tart square for Bonnie, while Tia had a snooze in the Honda. Beautiful sunshine- but it was nippy!
On the way home, we also stopped at the Gellatly Nut farm and had a nice hike through the grounds, and managed to get a couple of plastic bags of walnuts for Bonnie to take home and roast for Christmas.
Forgot the pedometer- but left Bonnie's at 1:15 pm and had her home by 4:45 pm. If you have young children, all three of these "hikes" (Hardy Falls, Beach Avenue and Gellatly Nut Farm) can easily be done by children as young as 2 and all can be done by stroller.
