Canada is a country with almost no population as you know. À propos, that makes its good roads being even more striking fact. One can drive for hours and see nothing but forests, steppes, and mountains. There could be no people around for hundred kilometers. And a town one enters could be of 175 people population as on the previous page.

We turned off from the main road between Oliver and Okanagan Falls, deciding to explore the middle of nowhere. We stopped at this lake on our way.

The lake is called Purple Lake because it is a home for purple bacterium, the only place in the world with this kind of those. The layer of these bacterium lives some five feet below the surface. They produce hydrogen sulphide, I believe. Therefore, there is no life under this layer.

You can read about the lake on the small information board near it. Surely, the lake is declared a protected area.