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south Okanagan man is convinced he’s captured the most conclusive piece
of evidence yet of the legendary and elusive lake monster in the
Okanagan known as the Ogopogo.Jim La Rocque was enjoying his mother-in-law’s lakefront property with his two children in Kaleden, B.C. on June 1 when he says he noticed an inexplicable wake on Skaha Lake.
La Rocque scrambled to record the mysterious ripples breaking through the lake’s glassy surface.
His son was wading on a paddle board nearby.
“Eventually he turns and sees a flipper come out of the water and hit the water, and that’s when he… turned around and started coming back in,” La Rocque said.
La Rocque believes he witnessed a giant, serpentine creature swimming across the lake with at least seven fins paddling in sync.
He estimates it was at least 36 metres (120 feet) long.
“I’d describe it as like a dragon boat race, like with oars, so if you flipped the dragon boat upside down, you would see all those oars coming out of the water,” he said.
La Rocque owns the Fairview Liquor Store in Penticton, B.C., and curious customers have been stopping by to get a glimpse of the cellphone video for themselves.
“I don’t know what it could be. That’s pretty weird, it’s not like normal waves,” customer Jesse Deuschle said.
“At first I was thinking maybe just waves, but there is obviously something more there,” liquor store employee Jack Holman said.
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