It was smoky in Kamloops but I used the excellent website firesmoke.ca to see the smoke condition in the area and it showed clear skies to the south, especially at higher elevations, so I picked Surrey Lake, one of my favorite lakes to paddle.    The roads were in good shape.    I turned right at the entrance to Wildlings Resort and followed the double track south along the lakeside.    There are two hand launch spots off that backroad.

It takes about 65 – 70 minutes to paddle the whole lake including the two shallow, marshy arms.

There was no one else on the lake on a Friday morning.    There were ducks and ducklings, an osprey, a bald eagle, many songbirds, dragonflies, and an assortment of pond creatures in the shallows.   Skies were relatively clear and it was warm, but not yet hot in the Surrey Summit area.   A few moments of the paddle are captured in this short video: