Donald DymerThe bottle of rum is all that’s missing from this interestingly named Canadian Park. We set out to see Lake Louise and any other interesting spot that might be on the way. Well it turned into a full day trip, culminating with a sunset at the campground and a start night shoot.
The Natural bridge was formed by constant water erosion by glacial melt carrying abrasive silt down the river over thousands of years and finding soft spots in the rocks. the water still gushes.
Moving on to Emerald Lake I could not resist the misty morning shot of the ponds and trees.
Emerald Lake, the reflections say it all, amazing colored water, again from the suspended particle from the glacial melt.
Then its back on the main road to Lake Louise, but wait, we need to visit the Spiral Tunnels, where trains go through a figure of eight made of two tunnels one each side of the valley, in order to safely descend to the valley floor below. n engineering wonder when the year of construction is considered – 1906.
A ride to Takakkaw Falls is a must, a waterfall seven times the height of Niagara Falls, that depends at four levels the first being the melting glacier that is not visible from below, but we do see the third and fourth stages which are in themselves spectacular.
On the way we stop and Two Rivers Meet, the place where the Yoho and the Kicking Horse River meet. One is clear water from the mountains, one is blur green from the glacial melt, as the picture shows. This is difficult to photograph, and a climb down the bank wss needed to get the water torrents over the rocks.
Finally we reach Lake Louise, tourist mecca, and when compared to Maligne Lake, Emerald Lake, (previous post) and some others it really is not so outstanding. A Japanese couple were doing wedding photos which was intriguing, and a “camper” from the wickedcampers.com rental company amused us.
One more lake, Moraine, and its approaches ended the trip and we returned to base in Golden, (British Columbia)
Later that evening a sunset presented itself and then when darkness came it was time to shoot the Milky way, hoping for Northern Lights but no.
Quite a day in reality.
