On the road to Banff. Nothing compares to the Canadian Rockies!!
Emerald Lake
This is the Natural Bridge
This is a picture of the lodge at Lake Louise and we understand that the room charge is a mear $2,200 per night.
Along the road, our second grizzly siting.
Moraine Lake
There were up to about 30 elk at a time feeding in our campground. A couple babies still nursing were with them. No fear of people at all.
Tomorrow we are off to Jasper, still in the National Park. Interesting thing is that you cannot own your land in either of these towns and cannot live there or retire there unless you own a business. Very interesting. Here are some of the mountain views we pass ~~
On the way we will stop at the Columbia Ice Fields for a tour on the tundra buggy up the glacier. The guide says that this glacier will be completely melted in the next 50 years. They moved our viewing area 100 feet up higher from last year. She said it is melting at about 50 feet per year. Very sad to see.
These buggies cost a mere 1.5 million to buy, tires are $5,000 each. The buggy has a top speed of 12 mph.
Caught a pretty good shot of the braided river of rock flour too ! ! Rock flour is created by the glaciers grating on the rocks below them and "sanding" it off into flour. No fish live in these waters and wildlife doesn't drink it either.
Tonight, June 28 (would have been my brother, Jeremy's birthday) Hard to believe that he has been gone almost five years now. We are in Jasper at another beautiful, wooded National Park. It has poured rain almost all day even though I really tried to do my sun dances ! ! We made homemade clam chowder for the group but they had to eat standing under the awning and under umbrella's. It was tasty but a soggy day. Cleared a bit around 7:30, right after the Travel Meeting was finished.. Then, the treat of the day.. About 15-20 of these gals and their four babies came through. No cares about all the people.. Didn't know that elk babies had spots too. Thought it was just deer.
Heading to Dawson Creek in the morning. Long driving day and a stop at Costco in Grand Prairie to stock up on the fresh things we need for the next couple campground meals ! ! ! Gotta do laundry too ! ! Fun times !
