Group wants to carve a 25-foot statue of the creature and donate it to the district
You may not have heard of Drumnadrochit, Scotland, but you likely know about its most famous nearby resident.
The village of 1,000 people lies on the west shore of the body of water that is home to the elusive Loch Ness Monster.
Approximately 6,700 kilometres to the west of Drumnadrochit lies another small community with its own ‘monster of notoriety’ – Peachland.
It’s there that a group of residents want to bring the world to their doorstep by enshrining Ogopogo, n ̓x̌ax̌aitkʷ in the Syilx language, in a massive wood carving that would presumably take up residence along the shore of Okanagan Lake in the community.
“People can sit down and have their picture taken with the Ogopogo with Rattlesnake Island (in the background),” said Lee Etherington.
Etherington, a wood carver, told Peachland council that the statue would be about 25 feet long, and eight to 10 feet high.