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Nat still wants to see a bear, she said she wants to get close, I reminded her that they eat people and she says that's fine she knows what to do... she'll sing to it!!! those of you on on the last tour will know what I'm talking about!!
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Nat still wants to see a bear, she said she wants to get close, I reminded her that they eat people and she says that's fine she knows what to do... she'll sing to it!!! those of you on on the last tour will know what I'm talking about!!
I think she is being crazy since a bear can out run a thoroughbred in short spurts!!!!
Saw Lake Peyto - It was very scenic, but there are only so many lakes that you can look at!!! I'm telling you, Canada is full of them! It was raining at this particular one so it wasn't that much fun.
Nat and I are feeling as unfit as ever and are feeling pretty thankful that we did the Grand Canyon hiking and stuff at the start of our trip since the other night we climbed 2 flights of stairs at our hotel and were buggered!!! arrrggghhh!!!
Sorry I'm a bit all over the place as far as the geographical order goes, but have to write things as I remember them!! We went up Sulphur Mountain on a gondala ride - it took a whole 7 minutes to go up and the same for down. Got to overlook the
Nat & i kicking back on the 'non' contiki bus
scenery from there and see the mangiest sheep I may have ever seen!
We visited Athabasca Falls which was a balmy 12 degrees!! They were pretty.
Then we headed across to the Columbian Icefields - Athabasca Glacier which is in the Jasper National Park. The Glacier is 60km long, 1km wide and about 8,000 years old apparently, however they say that in about 4 or 500 years it will be completely gone and will be a lake like Lake Louise.
We went on one of the 23 purpose built buses (in the world) which are 160hp, out onto the Glacier itself, we were so disappointed that it was a terrible day, lashing rain and wind and cold as could be. I took
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