Creature record / 1926
September 1926. An afternoon on Okanagan Lake. Telephone repairmen were at work on top of a telegraph pole. From up there, they spotted Naitaka. Just offshore of the Okanagan Mission district. Below them, the cars began to stop. Thirty carloads of citizens pulled up to watch, until the road was completely blocked. It happened at the height of a remarkable season, when the creature now called Ogopogo was being raced by motorists, shot at with a rifle and argued over in the papers. Nobody wrote down what the crowd saw. The original newspaper report has not been traced. But the scene survives.
1926 was a busy year on Okanagan Lake. Groups of five to nine people reported sightings off Summerland. In July, John L. Logie drove alongside the creature near Peachland, with P.J. Dodwell in the car behind. Four canoeists saw it on the second day of the Kelowna Regatta. In August, Joe Spurrier fired a rifle at it. The shot missed and hit a cottage.