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Nature sometimes has a way of making everything look like it belongs. This is an icicle melting in the above 0 temperatures at Mission Creek in East Kelowna. If you use your imagination you can see a polar bear hunting along an ice flow.

Mission Creek Greenway starts at Lakeshore Dive in Kelowna and continues east into Gallagher's Canyon, commonly referred to as Scenic Canyon Park. At this time of the year the sheets of ice over the shallow sections of the creek bed are still frozen solid, while the center portions of the ice fields are starting to break up, making themselves ready for the major thaw of spring. Mission Creek is noted for its high volume of water during spring run off. Before a dyke system was put into place, the Mission Creek Delta flooded every spring, causing considerable damage to surrounding farm land. To remedy this, dykes were built and a flood control channel were built to divert and control the huge flow, restricting the worst of the annual damage.

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