Spending time in a town like Osoyoos, B.C., you’ll notice pretty quickly that people like to help out their neighbours.
This week, when I was trudging through two feet of water with a camera over my shoulder and water flowing into my boots, I clearly looked like I could use a hand.
That’s when passerby Rick Valley told me I could hop in the back of his pickup truck for a quick ferry through the flooded street, which I graciously accepted (after all, how could I resist the shot?).
A pair of standup paddle-boarders cruise through the flooded Safari Beach. The water is
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