OK, now that you've gotten some of the flavor, we're beginning out travelogue through the Canadian Rockies. We started in Calgary, Alberta (picture No. 1). Then we moved on to the Rockies proper, with a trip to Waterton. Now Waterton is not at all well-known outside Canada, but is a marvelous place of incredible winds and scenery. The town of Waterton is a charming tourist attraction that has some of the tamest deer anywhere near the 49th parallel, as well as a majestic waterfall within the city limits. A great place to start.
Beautiful pictures!
ReplyDeleteYou sure are lucky. I would love to travel through such beautiful locales. And the pictures are spot on as always.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your thoughts, guys. Yeah, we do consider ourselves fortunate.
ReplyDeleteThat's truly wild Nature! Free, beautiful and uncontaminated, at least in the pictures. You have very good sense of landscape.
ReplyDeleteI had a great comment all written up and Blogger wouldn't let me post it! Apparently I can't post as my own google profile, so I'll just leave it as anonymous. For the record though, it's SJCT.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, you were in my neck of the woods. I live about 45 minutes from Waterton in Lethbridge. Waterton is great. Very low key but still amazingly picturesque. It's one of my favorite places on earth.
Calgary is my old stomping grounds. I lived there for about 6 years. The picture you posted of Calgary cracks me up. Nothing wrong with the picture itself, it's the subject that makes me laugh. It's a running joke between my friends and I. It used to be the tallest building in Calgary. Used to be. Calgary has grown so fast that the Calgayr tower is now dwarfed by many other buildings. It's not uncommon to to go the top, walk to the viewing windows and remark "Wowwww, I bet the view is really great...from the top of that building over there".
These are some truly breathtaking sites! I cannot say we have nature like this, even in Norway. Enjoy it the most :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you liked these pictures, and I've only just begun!
ReplyDeleteYou were in my neck of the woods, Drachma! I live about 45 minutes from Waterton. You're right, it's a very beautiful place. Not to mention, it's extremely low key. In fact, it's one of my favorite places on earth...handy then that's it's so close to where I live. You'd mentioned that it's not very well known outside of Canada. I would take it one step further and say that it is not that well known outside of Southern Alberta. It usually gets over-shadowed by it's more well-known National Park cousins, Jasper and Banff (I'd bet money that you went to those parks after Waterton!).
ReplyDeleteThe picture from Calgary cracks me up. I lived there for a few years before moving to Lethbridge. There's nothing wrong with the picture itself, it's the subject that makes me laugh. The Calgary tower used to be the tallest building in Calgary. Used to be. Now there are several other buildings that dwarf the tower. It's not uncommon to go to the top of the Calgary Tower, make your way over to the viewing windows and remark "Wow, I bet the view is really great....from that building over there!".
SJCT, you're so right about Waterton (and about the Tower in Calgary), though it was still fun to visit. And you're right about our visiting Jasper and Banff, but I still have fond memories from Waterton. However, the day we were to leave Waterton is the day that my nose started to bleed, I mean really bleed, and I got to experience Canadian health care first-hand. I got to visit the ER in Pincher Springs, Alberta, where I got a nasal tampon stuck up my nose, and didn't see the tourist sites of Banff because I had to take it easy after losing about a liter of blood.
ReplyDeleteThese are the next shots of your trip to Paradise! How beautiful and breathtaking these views are and to know this is real make everything else seem dull.
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