Jasper Mountain Suites
Travel Blogs from Jasper
Beginning of our road trip Kamloops & Jasper.
... hour of walking around town we stumbled upon a bar where we had pub food & a couple of pints of beer. There was a stag do going on & they invited us to join them. One of the stags was called Goose & he thought it was really funny to rhyme our names Goosey Lucy! An Irish descendant he delighted on telling us that his parents were from Dublin & Belfast. After a while of chatting to Goose we realised we were shattered so declined the kind offer & went back to our cosy ...
Day 20, Sightseeing in Jasper
It was a beautiful clear day, really sunny, but cool....just perfect. So we got up early and drove to Maligne Canyon just out of Jasper. The full round trip trek to through the Canyon was about 6kms and not too steep, so a beautiful meander. Magnificent ...
Rocking in the Rockies!
... t come out in the open too much. Then we saw the black bear eating some berries. He was only a little one approx two years old but was still great to see one in the wild from the safety of the bus!
The next day the lovely couple also staying at the B&B where I was offered to take me to Athabasca Falls. After three minutes in the car I understood why, they couldn’t read a map but luckily I had my ...
More adventures.
Ok, just to start things off: I saw a family of grizzly bears. A mum with two tiny baby cubs - they were adorable. Again we saw them right by the side of the road, so we were safely in the car whilst at the same time being so close to them!! Driving along the roads definitely seems to be the place to spot wildlife (Scott is now getting pretty good at screeching to a halt as we are driving along...) as there are plenty of bushes and shrubs which grow there. Over ...
Wildlife sightings again!?!?!?!
... pickles and carrots for dinner were eaten before packing up and going for a 'night drive'. We headed back down the road to Maligne lake because at one section of road along the side of Medicine Lake, we had seen lots of poop when driving there earlier today. By our reckoning, whatever had made those fresh piles of poo that we drove past, would be most likely to come out in the evening, not long before dark. We had just been gone for 30 minutes when we ...