Being a tourist...

I did the touristy thing yesterday, but I doubt

I can do justice to it if I try describing

what I saw, so I'll let the images do the talking.

(click on images to see detail)

A two and a half hour drive through the Canadian

Rockies, and I found myself in Jasper, AB.

Jasper, the town, is virtually in the middle of Jasper,

the national park.

With ticket in hand... well sticky-taped to the

windscreen... I was good to go.

It really is a beautiful part of the world.

It's like driving through a wonderland.

And the locals seemed to like the place too.

Some of which had cute little houses...

(note the outside loo on the right... I'd say

with a loo like that, you'd really

need to go in mid winter)

Oh and this little house had quite a frontage...

As well as checking out lakes and mountains,

I went to a gorge.

This gorge isn't very wide, but it's 51 metres

at its deepest point.

See the foot bridge above? I was on that

when I took the pic below...

This is a mother Raven sitting on a nest

about halfway down the 5o metre wall of

the gorge, and apparently there are 4 eggs.

Its mate was with it just before I took

this shot, but unfortunately it flew off

just as I focussed.

There's plenty of things to look at in the

town of Jasper too, but it really is set up

for tourism.

But even so, it is a pretty place nestled

in amongst the snow capped mountains.

But being an Aussie, you know,

from that big dry sandpit in the

southern hemisphere, there was

one thing on this trip that really

impressed me. Watch the video

below...

It may not mean much to you, but I'd never

seen a frozen lake before.

I'm very lucky to see these things, in fact I'm

grateful.

Cheers.