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Wednesday was another busy day of visiting the local favorites. As before, I won’t go into details about everything we did that day. What stuck out the most was, we toured Carmeli’s Goat Farm, St. Hubertus Estate Winery, Japanese garden, and boat tour of Okanagan Lake. If you are in the area visiting, I would highly recommend stopping by and visiting these places.
On the second stop of the day, we stopped by Carmeli’s Goat Cheese Artisan farm in Kelowna. One of my favorite tours was the making of the goat cheese. Anyone who knows me personally, knows I love cheese and goat cheese is very far up on the list of favorites. What I like about this place is, that they use an all natural (organic) process. What I mean by this, is the milk contains no additives, preservatives , and no stimulations in the production. The cheese is aloud to age to maturity naturally. This also includes taking care of the 30 heads of goat they have and the contracted goats milk they get from other local herds.
One of my favorite products they make is the gelato. Gelato is one of my favorite deserts. Is an Italian ice cream that is to die for. What I like about their gelato is that its made out from goat’s milk and not cow milk! What this means for those that can’t have diary is you are safe! You won’t get sick after eating this. We tested this and found it to be true. My wife is lactose intolerant and traditional gelato or ice cream would have her sick. She was fine even after a large scoop of it. For more pictures of the farm, goats and some of the cheese, I will have the rest posted sometime next week.
Our next stop was a small estate winery, St. Hubertus Winery. This winery is great place to stop and get wine. We did not get to go on the the tour, we did some wine tasting and found several tasty wines. This place is beutiful and looks great after being devistated after the 2003 forest fires. The vineyards look great and the staff is very helpful.
As you can tell its another gloomy day. It misted on and off most of the day. This is just one of their vineyards and as you can see, parked out by the grapes is an old 1938 ford two and half ton flathead 8 cylinder truck that was destroyed during the fires. As for the netting on the vines, they are there to keep the birds a way. They the gunshots and cannon blasts really do not help that much and they do what they can to keep the birds out of the vineyards.
On our next stop, we stopped a Japanese garden in the cultural district. This garden is very small but its peaceful, beautiful and well maintained. I really do not know much about the gardens, but its attached to some sort of business office.
There are so many great pictures I took here, but I can’t share them all. The above and the below picture are just a few of my favorite pictures.
our final stop of the day was a two hour boat tour of the surrounding lake areas. It was basically a tour of several important spots, but mostly it was a tour of the multimillion dollar homes along the bluffs and lake shore. The boat captain said that one new swas in the middle of building a 45000 square foot house and another was building a house that had a 22 car garage!
That’s it for now!
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