Film of Lake Monster in Okanagan Lake?

 Lake Okanagan in Canada is said to be the home of a water monster called Ogopogo The lake is approximately 120 kilometres long; 3.5 kilometres wide and is 235 metres at its deepest point. Indigenous people have legends about a monster in the lake. To the syilx, it’s n ̓x̌ax̌aitkʷ which means “the sacred spirit of the lake. To members of the Westbank First Nation, n ̓x̌ax̌aitkʷ and Ogopogo are two separate things.One is a spirit and one is an animal.

There used to be all one connecting lake, Okanagan and Skaha, and there are stories  of caverns that connect the two where a creature could live.

Sightings are reported of a creature 20 to 50 feet long, with a horse shaped head and an undulating serpent like body.The first recorded sighting was by John Allison in 1872.

In 2000 marathon swimmer, Daryl Ellis, reported being accompanied for a short distance during his swim by two large creatures as he passed Rattlesnake Island. He described them as one being 6 - 9 metres (20 - 30 feet) long and the second being smaller. They followed him for quite awhile and then disappeared. When he swam near Okanagan Lake floating bridge in Kelowna, a creature with a large eye the size of a grapefruit came within 9 metres to get a close look at him.

A 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 in june 2011.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.The longtime Okanagan resident said he couldn’t believe his eyes.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.

This new sighting was reported in the press.

Possible Ogopogo sighting on Okanagan Lake, ahead of National Sea Serpent Day

As luck would have it, we received a note from a man named Stuart on Wednesday, Aug. 6 – the day before National Sea Serpent Day. Here's what Stuart wrote:

"I was sitting on my deck on a calm evening and saw the water start to swirl going south then suddenly turned to the north and something appeared on the water that I immediately captured with my phone!

"It seemed very large and long and then suddenly disappeared! I did snap a few photos and wish at the time I would have videoed. I have had a property above Lake Okanagan for 23 years and have never seen anything quite like this."

Stuart lives in Vernon at Canadian Lakeview Estates above Okanagan Lake.

Read rest and see film here:

https://www.vicnews.com/trending-now/possible-ogopogo-sighting-on-okanagan-lake-ahead-of-national-sea-serpent-day-8181041

It looks like a large snake and so far there hasn’t been a credible explanation put forward. Could it really be Ogopogo?  What do you think?