Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Lake is 135 kms long with Kelowna, Britsh Columbia being the largest urban area, roughly located at the center of the lake. Easy Boat Rentals is located in Kelowna and is the perfect location to launch your rental boat and play and explore the lake.
Okanagan Lake is composed of three basins, a larger north basin, and a central or mid basin, and a southern basin. The lake is drained by the Okanogan River which exits the lake's south end via a canal through the city of Penticton to Skaha Lake, from whence the river continues southwards into the rest of the South Okanagan and through Okanogan County, Washington, to its confluence with the Columbia.
The lake's maximum depth is 232 meters near Grant Island (also called "Whiskey Island" or "Seagull Island" by locals). There is one other island known as Rattlesnake Island, much farther south by Squally Point. Some areas of the lake have up to 750 meters of glacial and post-glacial sediment fill which were deposited during the Pleistocene Epoch.
Notable features of the Okanagan Valley include terraces which were formed due to the periodic lowering of the lake's predecessor, glacial Lake Penticton. These terraces are now used extensively for agriculture such as fruit cultivation.
Okanagan Lake Near Kelowna, British Columbia
