Sunday, September 27, 2015

Driving the Rockies 4 Banff

We are settled in a quaint little B&B in Banff called Heidi's. It is not the Fairmont but we are relaxed and well cared for.
Today we headed out early to drive to Lake Minnewanka. The lake is formed by a dam! All the others have been natural created by the glaciation process. Under the lake is an old town and we saw divers preparing to dive and investigate. They also do it in mid winter but first they get a chain saw to cut through the metre or so of ice. Today it was hovering above freezing when we were there....but the sun was out and stayed out all day.
We explored the pretty lakes of Minnewanka and Two Jack and walked around the latter.

                                                        The shores of Lake Minnewanka
                                                                   Two Jack Lake
We drove back to the Parkway leading up to Lake Louise but were only rewarded with one sighting of deer that quickly darted away. We were told it was too cold for wildlife!
                                         Relaxing in Adirondack chairs at Mule Shoe Lake.
After a picnic lunch at one of our many stops we returned to Banff and drove up to the Banff Gondola. The view from the top was wonderful and the sky was clear.
This is at the very top! After the gondola we walked up lots of steps to the old weather station that was converted to  a Cosmic Rays research centre.We were glad for the gondola trip back

                     Looking down on The Banff Fairmont.We couldn't make out our B&B




4 comments:

Dot said...

Greetings from Iceland! Glad to see you are having a great time. We recognise so many of your photos- your trip so far is bringing back many fabulous memories of the year we spent living in BC ( little town called Oliver, 20 km from US border at the end of the Rockies). I'm sure you'll recognise many of the photos we've taken! Off to Glasgow tomorrow!

gailandrob said...

Hi Dot
Great to hear from you Continue to enjoy your travels. Gail and Rob

Miss Di said...

Wow, that is an astonishing view, glad you don't suffer from vertigo.

Anonymous said...

The view from the top would be making me ill - too high up for me!
Amanda xx