August is the month that my family and I had planned our big Shuswap houseboat adventure. Our journey began in the beautiful beach town of Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada, also known as the “Houseboat Capital of Canada”. Here we rented a 14-person houseboat and set sail on the open waters of Shuswap Lake. Our boat was called the Mirage 54, and we rented it for 5 nights from a company called Sicamous Houseboats, which is situated on the shores of Mara Lake. Mara Lake is also a gorgeous lake in its own right and connects to the much larger Shuswap Lake via the Sicamous Narrows channel.