Don and the Canadian Rockies, Blog 4 Icefield Parkway

Photos from Bow Lake, Lake Peyto, Mistaya Canyon, etc.  A camera can only try.
Enjoy

Opportunity for photographers are every moment

The road to Moraigne Lake.  We never got to see the  famous view, backed by the

ten  peaks (that's them up ahead).  The crowd was impossible to believe.

An Osprey surveys Bow Lake

One of the great Ice Field Parkway sights, Bow Lake.

Bow Lake

Crowfoot Glacier, much dininished

Don at Mistaya Canyon

Mistaya Canyon

Mistaya Canyon

Mistaya Canyon

A very special vista, Peyto Lake

In case you don't know, the water is really that color, a milky blue, created by glacial silt

suspended in the water.  People think "Photshop" but, naaah.

Just another view down the road

I'm not sure what these are, but they must be a kind of Western Dandilion.

The Ice Field Parkway has to be the most spectacular drive in North America.  I am sure there are others that compare, and

I hope I see them in this lifetime, but if not, I will have no complaints. 

I've been there three times now, and I would not hesitate to go back.

Don and the Canadian Rockies, Blog 3: Lake Louise

I convinced Don to get up at 4:30 AM to drive to Lake Louise for the sunrise on the Glacier, one of the truly great sights in the CR's.  He seemed adequately thrilled ("Go-lee!","Holy @#%#!" " Caramba!"  "Mon Dieu!" and so forth). It was everything I could have wished for him.

This is Victoria Glacier,  part of the enormous Columbia Ice field

The view inside the "Chateau"

A Columbine in the gardens

Grey Jay panhandling

Stellar's Jays

One final view.

Don and the Canadian Rockies, blog 2

Here is the second day in the Rockies.  We travelled to the Bugaboo Glacier area, a reknown
Heli-ski area.  Again, the day was very grey with smoke, and the trip was pleasurable for wild flowers, and water, but mounting views were limited. 

We didn't know what to expect (all new territory for me), but the height and magnificence of the

mountains along the way were breathtaking.

The road followed a river all the way. 

A trail that Don tried.  It was quite a grade up hill.

We got into the very luxurious lodge and got a free cup of coffee and a cookie, and

this view of the glacier, barely discernable in the smoke from all the fires.

Wild flowers in abundance.

At this  point I've coinviced Don to get up at 4:30 the next day to get to Lake Louise

before sunrise, and before the mobs of people. (Next Blog).

Don and the Canadian Rockies

Don and I decided to celebrate our 75th birthday by going to the Canadian Rockies, which happened to be celebrating their 150th. I'll post the blog by days accomplishments, and hope I can at least do credit to what was a very rewarding trip. 
Monday, Aug. 1

Spectacular views of Boston, taking off, Air Canada, to Toronto and then Calgary

If you look close, you can see the U.S.S Constitution, in the water

after a two-year refit.

First stop in Canmore,  Don taking his first "Rockies" picture

All of the Northeast has had a drought since May, and the Rockies were no exception.  Incredible forest fires were

raging all week, and vision was really smoky, especially the first and last days.  We had some great, clear days in the

middle of the week.

Even in the smoke, the mountains made you gasp.

In Golden, and flowing west was the Columbia River and huge marshes.

The first bird shot of the trip, a Loon

Not a lot of birds to be seen (the drought?)

Great Blue Heron

Easter Kingbirds

Barn Swallow

We saw more Osprey than anything else.