It wasn’t too early a start today, the breakfast buffet was really busy though and everyone has been commenting on the time taken during the line up to get a table. Today’s drive took us first off to the Banff gondola. Well I say gondola it turned out to be a ski lift complete with electric fence around the enclosure to keep the bears out! Now it was slightly cold it didn’t help that we had ¾ length trousers on. After getting a acclimatised to the coldness on the gondola we disembarked a fair way up the mountain side and went to the look out point. There were some fantastic views but no wildlife sighting, that was until we came back down. Out the corner of my eye I glimpsed a bear on the mountainside, Chris in his super speediness (we think) managed to get in on camera. Until we get back home and enlarge the image on the pc we’ll not know for sure.
Further along the road the coach screeched to a halt, no not an accident but more bears just playing by the roadside and then darting in front of the cars. We didn’t get the best view from our coach as there was another coach in front of us, but we were rewarding a mile or so later when another bear ran across the road and started eating the berries by the side of the road - we managed to get quite a few pictures of this one.
We had quite a few picture stops today in particular a couple of picturesque lakes with mountain backdrops. The last stop we did was at Lake Moraine - moraine being something to do with the rubble left at the end of the glacier movement (don’t quote me on that :P) The only wildlife we saw here were fat squirrels who weren’t camera shy!
Arriving at Lake Louise it’s the most picturesque hotel so far, it’s just so difficult to describe but basically opposite the hotel is the foot of a glacier and the glacier lake is surrounding on 3 sides by the mountains. We didn’t have much time to follow any of the lakeside walks which was a real shame. Our room itself was extremely small but we all had lake views which I think was then pay off. The service in the restaurant was pretty poor but in true fashion there was far too much food. As oppose to ordering your own starter a selection of small plates (think tapas) was brought to the table. We shared our table tonight with two other couples from our bus and ended up consuming far too much wine especially for the early starts we seem to be having!
Well today we’ve seen quite a bit of wildlife so hopefully this is just the start of things to come.
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Fat squirrels??? I think you'll find they're Chipmunks...
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