Waterfowl Lake Campground
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Good Times at Waterfowl Lake Camp Shelter
Day 24
After a scrumptious meal of homemade English muffin breakfast sandwiches, we checked out of our quaint yet pricey cabin at Jasper Bungalows and headed south again.
Along the way we stopped and walked up to the Athabasca Glacier.
Going to the Athabasca Glacier shows, like the Khumbu Glacier in Nepal, how much glaciers have receded …
Jasper to Banff
... a 5 minute drive outside of town but we successfully found it. Into reception we went & were greeted by the happy smiling Ben. After him & Caroline exchanged a couple of stories about James we headed over to our room. The room was lovely with a sitting room area complete with fireplace, kitchen area & two double beds. After settling into our lovely room we headed back to reception to get the free shuttle bus back into town where we were meeting James for a ...
Days 21-23, Beautiful Banff
... be so much variety in mountain ranges, from one solitary snow capped monolith to whole ranges of mountains that looked like slate stacked on top of each other reaching to the heavens. You could imagine the earth pushing the rock forms up from the ground in its formative years. Such was the overload of wonderment...it took us all day, including some stops of course, to do the drive to Banff....and we considered going back and doing it again! One of those stops was ...
My day with Stormy
... barking and growling. All but one of them were Jack Russell Terriers and of not much concern except for our ankles however the last one resembled a Siberian Timber Wolf. Sue, the proprietor came to meet us and the dogs turned to lovers. The stables are clearly owned by horse people and not business owners. They are just making some money from their passion. Sue introduced us to Billy, Deb's mount and to Stormy my mount and last to ...
The wind chill of a Glacier
... to go on a tour that takes you on the Glacier. The Glacier we would go on is the Athabasca Glacier. This has ice as thick as tall as the Eiffel Tower. We were prepared for it to be windy and a little cold, maybe not as much as it was though. We lined up, and got onto a bus. The bus drove us closer to the glacier. We got off the bus and got onto another bus. This time the bus has been custom made to drive on a glacier. The tyres ...
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