Banff is the highest town in Canada at an elevation of 1384m above sea level which means its a lot cooler here. That and the fact that is raining cats and dogs is not helping the sightseeing!!! So today we may have to do shops and museums and hold thumbs the rainy weather dissipates! Actually the weather didn't turn out too badly. We started off at the Cave and Basin which is where the park actually started and then onto Vermillion lakes which are 3 adjoining lakes just outside Banff. Then up to Mt Norquay which gave us a spectacular view of Banff town and the surrounding mountains and we saw mountain sheep with curly horns which was nice (did i mention this is not Africa!) We then went to Bow Falls where we pounced on a poor mounty for a picture and saw the gorgeous Fairmont Hotel which looks like something out of a fairy tale. In the afternoon we did Lake Minnewanka (strange name) and watched abit of dragon boat racing preparation. A long day and luckily for us the weather did hold. See more pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/sbramhall/RockiesDay5#
2 comments:
Is it awesome? Do I want to live there?
you are looking great Sue - hope you are having a wonderful time... Cape Town misses you!!
Vancouver is definately worth a look in to live. However i met some saffies the other day who said life is tooooo sloooow here!
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