August 27, 2012

  • Lakes, lakes, and Ice!

    Today has been a most eventful day compared to the day before.   Although I have quite a bad memory and forgot most of the places we went to for the day, I still remember a few of the highlights. So I THINK this is the order we went by. 

    In the morning after we ate breakfast, we went to Emerald lake, which is already part of Alberta. I really love how green the lake is but compared to Lake Louise I guess it's incomparable. :) . We then stopped by 
    a naturally built water bridge in YoHo national park, and basically the way it came to be is by a natural disaster causing the tree trunk to fall across the river and formed a bridge over. We then went over to another fabulous lake before we headed to Columbia Ice field, where we had our lunch followed by the Brewster bus ride to the ice field exploration trip. All I can say about the ice field is that it was AWESOME.  Yes I've been here before 12 years ago but as I've already mentioned, my memory is quite bad so this is like my first time all over again.  The wind was cold but the weather was beautiful so when we walked out onto the ice basically my whole body was freezing cold except my feet.  Which is ironic because I wore a pair of Minnetonka. 

    To imagine that the Rocky mountains were underground below the sea 72 million years ago is extraordinarily confusing for my tiny brain the comprehend, but i think what amuses me the most is how after all these years, the glaciers are still here.  Hopefully the world climate won't deteriorate the ice that fast, but it's estimated that it will probably be gone in the next couple hundred years or so. 

    The banff national park was the next destination after the icefield, and we took the gondola up to sulphur mountain.  From the top we could see the fairmont at banff, and in the far corner I think I might have made out a shape of lake Louise. Or maybe I was wrong. 

    We walked around the banff city centre after dinner, and then went to fair mont at lake louise.  Unfortunately we checked in quite late so I couldn't make use of my swim suit and go for a hot tub of sauna.  But I'll definitely wake up earlier tomorrow to take in a good glimpse of sparkling lake louise :) and marvel at God's wonderful creations.