Day Three

Posted by bellbell at 9:00 AM

Wednesday July 14,2010

Saw more mountains today. We are now seeing the Canadian rockies and we are heading over to Alberta. The first place we went to was Rogers Pass. Rogers Pass is where the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans Canadian Highway traverses. The highway is the one we were on for the majority of the day, also known as No.1 Highway. Rogers Pass is 1,330 m (4,364 ft) in elevation. We took pictures of the summit. It was really cold up there. Nice way to wake up. The bone chilling cold in the morning. We were able to see ground squirrels, squirrels that live in the ground instead of the trees. They came out and one of them even posed for us as we were taking pictures of them.



Aren't they just adorable? After that we headed to see the Natural Bridge. The natural bridge is located over the Kicking Horse River in Yoho national Park. How is it a natural bridge? Well it is a rock that had been eroded by the constant rushing of water and it has created a bridge. Kicking Horse river


See the formation of the rock? It was created by the rushing of the water and it eroded the limestone.
The next site brought us over to Alberta, the next province over. We are no longer in British Columbia so the tax is 5% GST in Alberta.

I think this next site was the highlight of the day. We went to Lake Louise also known as the "Jewel of the Rockies". We had a buffet lunch at the really nice hotel , The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Took so many pictures there. The dining room has a spectacular view of Lake Louise.  
Really Magnificent. Next stop we went to Moraine Lake. It is shown on the old 1969 and 1979 issues of Canadian $20 bill. It is situated in the Valley of Ten peaks. It is glacially- fed and the lake is in the Banff National Park. The lake has this really pretty blue color and from what the tour guide said, it's beacuse of light refraction off of the rock flour in the lake. (ooo physics).

*this is from the web *this is from the web
These two pictures are found from the web. I wanted to show how Lake Moraine is on the $20 Canadian Dollar.

Next Stop is Banff, the town famous for it's scenery and is also located in Banff national park. Had a Thai dinner there.

After dinner we went to Bow Falls. Famous because Marilyn Monroe filmed the 1953 "River of No Return"
I forgot to take the actual picture of Bow Falls, but I did take pictures of the surrounding scenery.... So I got this picture of Bow falls from the web:

*this picture is from the web.
See Bow Falls in the background? Here are the others that I took.
To tell the truth, I was a little dissapointed. When the tour guide talked about Bow Falls, I imagined it to be a waterfall falling from many feet up high and you had to either look up or down. But I saw it and I was like huh? This is it? Apparently Bow falls is famous because of the movie. But it was still very scenic.

Our last stop was this lake. I forgot the name. It was not on our Itinerary, the bus driver gave us an extra site.

Oh and to end the day we saw these... deer?goats?

We stayed overnight at Stoney Nakoda Resort and Casino.

 

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