Okanagan senior parasails for 95th birthday

Lee Prunkl is starting her 95th twelvemonth connected a precocious note.

The Kelowna, B.C., nonmigratory is parasailing done her aureate years, gaining a caller position of the metropolis she has called location astir of her life.

“Every time is simply a large astonishment astatine my age,” said Prunkl.

Prunkl moved to Kelowna successful 1938 from Yugoslavia with her household and travelled astir the metropolis by equine and buggy. It’s a agelong mode from the motorboat she and her nephew Troy Manchur are sailing from today.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Prunkl has defied gravity, arsenic she took to the skies 2 years ago, and has been talking astir her clip parasailing each since.

“Just the thrill of it all, conscionable going up and watching Kelowna down below,” said Prunkl.

Her nephew, Troy Manchur, accompanies her connected the voyage for his archetypal parasailing experience.

“I cognize [Prunkl] enjoyed it past clip she did it, truthful one thought what a large mode to observe your 95th birthday,” said Manchur.

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The 95-year-old is not the oldest idiosyncratic to acceptable sail with Okanagan Parasailing but she is alternatively close.

“We person had a batch of seniors travel and parasail with us, we had a 100-year-old antheral travel for his day successful the outpouring this year,” said Okanagan Parasail manager, Krystal Wittmer

Wittmer says the magic of parasailing is that anyone 4 years aged and up tin spell retired and get a birds-eye presumption of the Okanagan.

As for Manchur and Prunkl, they volition ever person fond memories of their clip flying implicit Kelowna.