Bow River Calgary

Nach einer Nacht im schönen Banff, mitten im Nationalpark, umgeben von Bergen, haben wir den kanadischen Triathlon komplettiert. Wir haben uns ein Kanu gemietet und sind den Bow River einige Kilometer auf und abgefahren. Das Wasser des Flusses ist unbeschreiblich blau, klar und kalt.
Danach haben wir uns auf den Weg nach Calgary gemacht. Sobald …

... and left without touching our golf clubs. On the small road that led to Banff Springs Golf was a small park on the Bow River. There was a waterfall to view plus a nice rock beach. People were everywhere. There was one person that was intriguing - ...

... up with Jemma again, and we headed north through downtown to Prince's Island Park in the Bow River. Another insight for you now, the architects of Calgary, in a moment sheer genious, created a series of enclosed elevated walkways through downtown Calgary ...

... to be added next also includes views from my office window (I look south-west, past the shiny towers to the Rockies) and also the view from my new appartment (looking at the Bow River and up to the hills where you can see the Olympic Village ...

... nice smell at all, it’s quite pungent. Somehow it had gotten to be about 530 and so I walked back to town along the Bow River. Just before I came to the bridge, I saw a deer! He was just casually eating flowers, not paying any attention to the few ...

... and yesterday the temperature stuck at -6'C all day but the view from my apartment was spectacular. Picture the scene...the mighty Bow river as thick & the colour of liquid stone, Rocky mountains were rapidly blotted out by the thick sheets of snow ...

... I'd like to watch it just to compare it to our news. Next, we took our bikes downtown - however, just as we started across the Bow River, it started to rain like crazy. We found some shelter in a cover on the bridge. It was thundering and lighting so we ...

... wasn’t just being cool though, there was no victim, it was just a training exercise for them all in the snowy, icy Bow River; such fun.  I crossed the bridge as directed and made my way towards where I hoped the zoo was, but the wooded area ...

... did appologize for the roundyness this morning! Oh well, par for our course to-date! We took a walk along the Bow River that runs swiftly through Calgary.  It was lovely.  Bike paths all along and many parks. We are spending 2 nights and today ...

... I tried to absorb. Instead of going to the zoo (as previously planned), Thursday was spent spin and fly fishing on the Bow River with my cousin Stuart. This meant getting knee deep in fast-flowing icy cold water - ouch! Unfortunately our attempts were ...

... some random pictures I found myself at the 'waterfront,’ or simply the dribble of river that it was.  The Bow River runs through Calgary from Banff, but it didn’t seem very impressive as I watched the snow covering one side and the brown ...