Diving Platform Gellatly Bay - Westbank, BC
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N 49° 49.284 W 119° 37.142
11U E 311618 N 5522064
Let's just say that, unless you have the use of a boat, if you can't swim, you certainly can't partake of this diving platform.
Waymark Code: WMGKMX
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 03/17/2013
Views: 8
Smack in the centre of the beautiful Okanagan Valley, Gellatly Bay is a much used aquatic location just east of downtown Westbank. In the 1930s the CNR built a ferry wharf at Gellatly Bay to serve paddlewheelers landing at Westside Landing to disgorge passengers and take on tons of fruit grown nearby for shipment worldwide. The paddlewheelers connected with trains further up the lake, which further transported the cargoes of fruit.
The wharf was used until 1972, when it was torn down. The present wharf is a real life reconstruction of the original. The water at the wharf is too shallow for diving off of it, but people were still attempting it.
Signs were posted warning of the danger of diving into the shallow water, and it was finally deemed prudent to construct a proper diving platform further out in deeper water to discourage such foolishness. It can only be accessed by boat or by swimming to it.
Type of water: Natural
Hight: 10 Feet
Opening hours: Continuous
Admission price: 0
Website: [Web Link]
Legal spot?: yes
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