Barb Gauthier (left) and Donna Heinrich search for answers during the Osoyoos and District Museum and Archives’ Great Day of Adventure on June 9. Along with Marilyn Gauthier, the team finished in third place. (Vanessa Broadbent / Osoyoos Times)

By Vanessa Broadbent

Osoyoos Times

The only piece of advice participants were given before heading out on the third annual Great Day of Adventure was to wear comfortable shoes.

This year the scavenger hunt, hosted by  the Osoyoos and District Museum and Archives, took teams all over Main Street on foot in search of answers to 76 questions. In previous years, participants had to drive while deciphering clues.

“We thought that it was a good time to switch it up. We didn’t want to get too stuck in a rut, doing it one way,” executive director Kara Burton said.

Osoyoos residents Larry Stone and Margaret Grant were the first to answer all questions and arrive back at the museum.

Stone has competed in the event every year and enjoyed the changes, and found the difficult questions a welcome challenge.

“It was a lot of fun this year, more fun,” he said. “We learned what a ‘big belly’ is – it’s the recycling bins.”

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“We went all through inside Fields and asked them ‘do you have anything called a big belly?’” Grant added.

The tough questions are necessary, Burton said, because winners are chosen based on how many correct answers they get.

“We purposely have to throw a few of those questions in because otherwise everybody gets everything right.”

Nobody got everything right, but two teams tied for first place with 82 out of 86 possible points.

A draw determined Susan Moreira, Cristal Macor and Jennifer Shiels the winners, with Harold and Audrey Cox in second place. Winners left with gift cards to Osoyoos Home Hardware.

Stone and Grant, however, went home with more knowledge about Osoyoos.

“We’ve been here quite a while and there’s things we caught on to that we didn’t know about,” Stone said.

(Vanessa Broadbent / Osoyoos Times)

(Vanessa Broadbent / Osoyoos Times)

(Vanessa Broadbent / Osoyoos Times)