On our second full day in Alberta, our plan was to drive to Jasper and spend the night there. It is a long drive from where we were staying in Canmore to Jasper (312km) so we thought we’d stop in Louise and go canoeing on the lake to break up the drive and get a …
Back to the Osprey
For various reasons, I have not been down to visit Scarlett and Rhett at the osprey next for a while. I had hoped they were incubating eggs, but now I'm not so sure. When I got to the nesting area, Scarlett was sitting on the post near the nest eating something. It was probably a …
Miranda Friday
Something a little different for Miranda - a short video of her playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWf7wtg1_5Y Have a wonderful weekend. Miranda and Maralee
Hiking Sulphur Mountain
There are only two ways to get to the top of Sulphur Mountain in Banff, Alberta, Canada. You can take an 8 minute gondola ride and travel the 2150 feet to the top or you can hike the 5.5 km (3.4 miles) to the top (all of it uphill). I recently returned from my fourth …
Moose
This was the year for moose sightings in Canada. We saw 4 different moose on our drive to Maligne Lake and another in our drive back yesterday. No grizzly sightings yet.
