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Legendary 'Ogopogo' Orpheum Orchard Opus 2016
Ogopogo on the Okanagan lakeshore, foot of Bernard Street, at the entrance to Kelowna City Park. Adjacent to the statue of the sails. The Ogopogo is a legendary creature named so by the indigenous Okanogan native peoples of the area. There have been many sightings over the last few hundred years, with the bulk of sightings over the last hundred years since the advent of photography. Generally, if you were to see the Ogopogo, only it's head and the undulating body is usually all you would see. (Just like this sculpture.) Other times, you would just see a strange set of ripples traveling in a given direction, like the wake of a boat, (but with no apparent object or creature visible above water to make the disturbance). Some scientists believe that it could be a land locked plesiosaurus, or similar creature, cut off from the Pacific ocean. There's even a large underwater cave (near Peachland) where the creature is believed to have made it's home. Some even believe there is an infant born to the creature, and is occasionally seen with the mother creature. I myself have seen what I believe to be the creature back in 1969 while on vacation in Kelowna.
Legendary 'Ogopogo' Orpheum Orchard Opus 2016
Ogopogo on the Okanagan lakeshore, foot of Bernard Street, at the entrance to Kelowna City Park. Adjacent to the statue of the sails. The Ogopogo is a legendary creature named so by the indigenous Okanogan native peoples of the area. There have been many sightings over the last few hundred years, with the bulk of sightings over the last hundred years since the advent of photography. Generally, if you were to see the Ogopogo, only it's head and the undulating body is usually all you would see. (Just like this sculpture.) Other times, you would just see a strange set of ripples traveling in a given direction, like the wake of a boat, (but with no apparent object or creature visible above water to make the disturbance). Some scientists believe that it could be a land locked plesiosaurus, or similar creature, cut off from the Pacific ocean. There's even a large underwater cave (near Peachland) where the creature is believed to have made it's home. Some even believe there is an infant born to the creature, and is occasionally seen with the mother creature. I myself have seen what I believe to be the creature back in 1969 while on vacation in Kelowna.