True Patriot Love - August 11, 2026


Canada's Floating Marvel： Kelowna's Pontoon Bridge 🇨🇦🌉 #shorts


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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

141.43

Word count

448

Sentence count

25


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 On the back of the boat with Dennis from Okanagan Experience, and we're going to give you a
00:00:09.820 couple of interesting facts about the bridge behind us.
00:00:12.000 But first, Dennis, congratulations on Citizen of the Year here in Kelowna.
00:00:17.540 It was three years ago, but thank you.
00:00:20.640 But for your work.
00:00:21.800 You just found out.
00:00:23.040 I was going to say, it's news to my ears.
00:00:25.140 But I will say this.
00:00:25.980 yeah uh we'll talk more about that in the interview and see why that was so important but i want to
00:00:30.300 say congratulations and thank you uh for your valuable work with the ukrainian community here
00:00:35.660 and in the ukraine of these tough times okay now behind us this bridge is outstanding tell me all
00:00:42.060 about it dennis so it's first thing it's floating it's floating it's floating so all this big part
00:00:49.340 it's floating I saw how they constructed they just concrete casted pieces not far
00:00:57.260 from here and they tug on the tugboat they brought the pieces here and
00:01:01.280 connected together so it's the longest pontoon bridge in Canada it's attached
00:01:05.900 with the anchors going 100 meter deep and some of the anchors they reused from
00:01:11.180 the old bridge that was built in 1955 and it was at the time longest pontoon
00:01:15.340 bridge in British Empire so what's interesting it acts as a giant breakwater
00:01:21.880 so if you have south wind just where we are would be huge waves on the other
00:01:28.420 side of the bridge cold or vice versa so usually when you travel on this bridge
00:01:33.760 you see one side of the lake is rough another is cold and there is a lot of
00:01:40.600 of talk in Kelowna about that we need the second bridge.
00:01:43.920 There are petitions and so on, a lot of money.
00:01:46.580 So there are sometimes big traffic jams right here.
00:01:52.180 The previous bridge, 1955, was also a marvel
00:01:54.840 of engineering and it replaced the ferry
00:01:56.600 that was here before.
00:01:58.200 But the problem with the old bridge
00:01:59.500 that you had to raise up part of the bridge
00:02:02.240 for any yacht to come up.
00:02:03.680 Yeah, so this solved this problem, which is pretty good.
00:02:08.240 Well, that's fascinating.
00:02:09.240 All right, well, there you go.
00:02:10.080 another Kelowna fact.
00:02:11.400 Watch the interview that I did with Dennis.
00:02:13.400 All kinds of cool stuff.
00:02:14.760 And if you keep following this social media chain,
00:02:18.760 you're gonna see that I'm doing some investigation
00:02:21.520 of my own into a mysterious beast
00:02:24.500 from right here in these waters.
00:02:26.240 And the lake is 100 kilometers long.
00:02:28.600 We're right in the middle.
00:02:29.520 50 kilometers one way Vernon,
00:02:31.080 50 kilometers other way Penticton.
00:02:32.940 You think we're gonna be okay?
00:02:34.060 Yeah.
00:02:34.900 Okay.
00:02:40.080 Thank you.