Canadian Rockies

Travelling the Icefield Parkway from Lake Louise to Jasper we saw some of the most beautiful scenery of our travels to date. Here we travelled onto Athabasca Glacier in a custom made glacier bus. As our water supply was low this seemed a perfect chance to replenish!!


Th view of the glacier was lovely but walkling on ice was a little cool.


Having scaled the mountain overlooking Jasper we appreciated the view from the summit
OK we took the chairlift but the view was still great.


From the mountain we could see the 3 blue lakes fed entirely from glacier melt.
The milky coloured creek was fed by rainwater and run off and the small green lake was fed by a combination of both.


Drew wanted to show off


In the national parks we had to share our environment with the bears and other wildlife, but these bins were provided so we didn't need to share our food.


Just another glacier fed lake in the Canadian Rockies


Radium Hot Springs at the south end of Kootenay National Park was a pleasant space to chill out for a couple of nights and the ribs at Back Country Jacks were delic!


The 4 national parks that make up the Canadian Rockies are Yoho, Kootenay, Jasper and Banff. This stream (with EL Van) in the background was in Kootenay, but there were so many beautiful streams, waterfalls, ice capped mountains and glaciers that they all started to look the same.


The walk around Lake Louise was another wonderful sensational kaleidoscope as you can see from the view here from Lake Louise Lodge. Definitely much better than drew's visit to the dentist in Banff where he was prescribed pencillin to cure an abscess. Later he needs a root canal to fix the tooth - yuk.


Vermillion lake at banff presented Chris with a great photo opportunity


Here's some of the wildlife we found in the parks!