#Spallumchuck rapids

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Simard’s houseboat in the Spallumchuck rapids.

Photo from the Enderby & District Museum.

A houseboat caught in the Skookumchuk rapids in this undated photo. Photograph donor Joyce Taggart said the boat belonged to the Simards. [7167]

Emily Lussin wrote about the Chucks, as they are known locally, in an article on the Kayak for Youth Program in the book, Flowing Through Time, Stores of Kingfisher and Mabel Lake: “The Shuswap River flows calmly out of Mabel Lake picking up speed as it starts charging down this stretch of whitewater. Every feature has been named. It starts with a wave called Teeter Totter, where at high water a long time ago a log got held up on a rock and later that summer at lower flow was able to be teeter tottered back and forth. Then there is a huge hole called Greyhound that could latterly swallow a Greyhound bus. Next up is the “wave train” of the Chucks with a few holes at different levels and the Ledge on the river right heading out of Big Pool. One and on it goes, flowing over the rocks, forming more memorable features we know as Hawaii-Five-O, Quickie, the Whirlies, the Jet Ferry, the S-bends, and the Rodeo Hole!”