{"id":4559,"date":"2012-03-29T14:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2012-03-30T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:46:12","slug":"ogopogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4559","title":{"rendered":"Ogopogo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was the churning water, the splashing, and the spreading waves that drew my attention to an unreasonably long and sinuous animal with a whipping tail and fish-devouring jaws.<\/p>\n

Yikes, it is an\u00a0OGOPOGO\u00a0<\/span>!!! \u00a0(\u00a0\u2190 Note my hyperbolic use of explanation marks. )<\/p>\n

The light was dim; it was raining; the monster was a long, long way offshore. But, it fit all the descriptions I have encountered of the ogopogo. It progressed rapidly along the West Arm from the Nine-mile Narrows as it headed towards Kokanee Creek Park. My camera clicked away happily. After capturing some fish, and before reaching the Park, the ogopogo turned around and undulated back down the Lake churning the water as it swam.<\/p>\n

Then it spotted me; it promptly turned and headed straight at me—yikes, this chthonic monster was hydra-headed.<\/p>\n

The folks in the Okanagan are noted for seeing such monsters (and taking unconvincing pictures of them). Yet, those of us on Kootenay Lake have had our own\u00a0observations\u00a0(an interesting summary by Tammy Hardwick<\/a>). Now, I had a chance to take my own pictures\u00a0(continued below).<\/p>\n

This is an un-retouched telephoto image of the distant Kootenay Lake ogopogo.\"\"<\/p>\n

As the ogopogo approached me, its sinuous body undulated in and out of \u00a0the water;
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Its tail whipped about;
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And one of its multiple heads ploughed directly toward me.
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Finally, some of this family of otters approached quite close.
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Ok, I knew from my initial observation that this was actually a family of a half-dozen otters, but it was stunning how closely what was seen way out on the Lake fitted the reports of the ogopogo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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