Epoxy

Green Lake

South Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada

Also known as North Green Lake, South Green Lake, 70 Mile House, Watch Lake

One lake, two governments, and the line runs down the middle of it.

Green Lake sits on the boundary between the Cariboo Regional District and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. The north shore is administered out of Williams Lake, the south shore out of Kamloops. People here talk about North Green Lake and South Green Lake as if they were separate communities, and on paper they are.

Most of the time it makes no difference. Then something arrives that does not respect the line, and two districts end up issuing their own notices for opposite sides of the same water. That happened in the 2017 Elephant Hill fire and again in 2026, with orders and alerts landing on the two shores at different times.

The lake is fourteen kilometres of shallow water on the Cariboo Plateau, roughly a kilometre and a half across, with the southwest end breaking apart into small bays and islands. The line through it is invisible from the water.

Details

Feature: Lake
Build: Epoxy
Material: Solid Maple
Colour: Caribbean Blue
Size: 10-1/2" x 16"
Completed: April 2025

Shop this Style $350.00 CAD

How this one was made

Maple, and not wall to wall. The dam follows the waterline about half an inch out, so the flood runs along the shore and most of the face stays bare.

Two colours here. The water, and then the lettering and the pin marker filled black. The pin is a small cavity with an outline too fine to dam at that size, so it goes in by syringe ahead of the main pour.

Green Lake is long and thin and the shape works against you at both ends. Fourteen kilometres of lake compressed onto a board this size leaves the main body narrow enough that the two dam lines run close together for most of its length. Then the southwest end comes apart into small bays and islands, and that corner takes more dam than the rest of the lake put together. Maple gives the least sanding margin of the woods we use, so the seal has to hold everywhere before anything goes down.