{"id":23632,"date":"2018-06-02T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23632"},"modified":"2018-06-02T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T21:12:10","slug":"kcpp-boardwalk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23632","title":{"rendered":"KCPP boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16571\">Two years ago<\/a>, I took a picture of the boardwalk in Kokanee Creek Provincial Park. This path links the creek with the the spawning channel and the Nature Centre. I noted then that plans were underfoot to replace the boardwalk with something offering greater accessibility. The earlier picture I took is shown first. The new boardwalk opened today and a similar view of it appears below.<\/p>\n<p>This is the boardwalk as it was. At the top is a bridge over the spawning channel which also leads to the Nature Centre. At the lower left the boardwalk winds around to the bridge over Kokanee Creek itself. At the lower right is passage along the spawning channel. This is all now replaced.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16607\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boardwalk160308bs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new boardwalk is similarly arranged. At the top is a bridge over the spawning channel which also leads to the Nature Centre. At the lower left the boardwalk winds around to the bridge over Kokanee Creek itself. At the lower right is passage along the spawning channel. However, the boardwalk is much broader and more gently sloped. It is fine craftsmanship which allows easier and safer passage, along with potentially better views of the spawning kokanee.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23634\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/boardwalk180602s3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Park has done a fine job of offering both access and passage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two years ago, I took a picture of the boardwalk in Kokanee Creek Provincial Park. This path links the creek with the the spawning channel and the Nature Centre. I noted then that plans were underfoot to replace the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23641,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23632\/revisions\/23641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}