Houseboat a floating funhouse
Summary
Such a relentless schedule of fun and relaxation is inevitable aboard a houseboat on British Columbia’s Shuswap Lake, the houseboating capital of Canada. A Waterway Houseboat is like having a buoyant holiday headquarters, a massive luxury mobile hotel suite and a bobbing abode with the most incredible lake-and-mountain-and-blue-sky views. Me and my wife, Kerry, along with our 15-year-old daughter, Grace, and her friend, Lauren, boarded our floating funhouse at Waterway Houseboats on Mara Lake in Sicamous, in the southern interior of the province. From Waterway’s headquarters it’s a quick cruise through the narrows into Shuswap Lake with its calm, cobalt waters and 1,100 km of shoreline on four watery arms that spread out like a claw. Up further via a spiral staircase and we’re on the sun deck and the entrance to the aforementioned corkscrew waterslide that shoots you off the back of the boat.