The Canadian Rockies

We’re on our way to Montana, back in the US. We spent the last 2 days in the Canadian Rockies – Yoho and Banff National Parks. We weren’t so lucky weather wise. It rained most of the time and the mountains and glaciers were concealed by fog. We managed to take few good pictures though. The amazing teal blue color of Lake Moraine seems unreal! Lake Louise has the same color and beautiful glaciers hanging right above it but it was too foggy to see. After that it started raining badly and we went back to the campsite.

Today we woke up to a better weather and guess what? WE SAW A BEAR!!! We saw traffic jam on the way and we thought it might be because there’s a bear around. We also saw the “bear police” car in the area. We looked in the woods and there he was, walking around slowly, nibbling leaves, didn’t seem like the crowd of people bothered him at all.
He was walking right next to a campground and it made us realize that the bear warnings in the parks are not rumors after all (-: That’s the best picture we could take.

From there we continued south to Banff city, which reminded us of Switzerland.

And to Calgary, where they’re working hard on getting ready for the winter Olympics in 2010.

We gradually descended from the Rockies to plateau, where we saw more and more deer.

This is where we stopped for dinner and then we found a campground for the night.