Steve Lavallee, a DJ with CKLZ Power 104, writes the following story, which he sent to us after seeing a story about Ogopogo.

"There were 8 of us on a rented boat celebrating my 25th birthday. We were not far from Bear Creek Park around early afternoon. We stopped to swim, near the middle of the lake.  I noticed three waves moving through the water. They looked like humps, almost like when a river goes over a big boulder with a v shape at the beginning. They were like waves but not going in a straight line- they were sort of moving in a zig-zaggy fashion and very fast.

As a joke, I yelled at the others "It's Ogopogo- look!" Then as eveyone saw it, including my cousin who took a picture with his mobile phone, we started to think that maybe this was not a joke after all. The two people who were swimming got back in the boat and we decided to chase the object, but it was fast. We were in an 8-man larson bow rider and it was hard to keep up with the weird waves.

They seemed to slow down after about 5 minutes and we caught up. At that time, we saw what appeared to be 3 or 4 of the exact same objects all around the same area, zigzagging around. We didn't know what to think and thought that perhaps it was some kind of an unexplained but natural phenomenon, although really weird. I don't know what it was but it was definitely something!"

Steve explained that the "waves" he saw were coming from the large object, with the "v" part at the front, just below the surface. As seen from a bit of a distance, it looked like the "hump" measured about 2-1/2 feet high and somewhere about 3 feet wide.