With Internet availability limited I can only update the
blog when I can.
The weather here is, shall we say, variable. Yea, let’s go with that. We have had a mixture of everything except
snow. We have had nice enough weather
to get out for some good shooting though.
Wildlife here include Bear, Bighorn Sheep, Ground Squirrels,
Foxes and Blacktail Deer. For those on
my Facebook page you've seen these foxes but I’ll post them again here.
This little ground squirrel is what the fox hunts quite
successfully. We’ve seen them a few
times with one in their mouth as they head back to their den. This squirrel is gathering food to store for
the winter but is always on alert when the fox is around.
We've seen a few Rocky Mountain Bighorns both here and down
in Yellowstone. This is one from
Waterton. They’re still shedding off
their winter coats so they look a tad scruffy.
We found this Blacktail Buck relaxing in the morning
sun. All the Bucks are in velvet now
and by the looks of some of them will be presenting some really nice racks by
summer.
We’ve seen more than a few bears but it seems I’m always on
the wrong side of the light.
I’m still hoping to get a nice shot of cubs as
well. Here is a Black Boar from Waterton.
Waterton National Park shares a border with Glacier National
Park in Montana. As such there are many
shared management policies. This is a
tour bus from Glacier National Park that was visiting when some people from
Glacier were in Waterton.
The landscape here in Waterton is spectacular to
say the least. My favourite is Red Rock
Canyon. This small canyon was carved
out by the creek and by donning gumboots I was able to hike up and down the
canyon for these pictures.
This last one shows the end of the red rock as
the creek flows out of the canyon.
Well, Gaye and Lee left this morning heading home to a
monumental task of organizing their new house.
It was great meeting up with them and we look forward to our visit in
August.
Tomorrow we head north to Banff National Park and then up to
Jasper National Park. I’m guessing our
next Internet will be in Jasper. So, I
leave you with one last picture of Waterton, one which I hope can give you an
idea of the scale and grandeur of the landscape here. This is the rear of the Prince of Wales Hotel that sits on a high
hill overlooking the townsite and Waterton Lake. Behind the hotel the valley drops way down to the lake.