Friday, August 11, 2006

Lake Waterton National Park


Our first day in the truck saw us head down to Lake Waterton National Park via Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump (great name!) where the 1st Nations chased buffalo over a cliff to their fate as rugs and jackets 5000 years ago.
Lake Waterton, a boundary with Glacier National Park in the US to form an 'International Peace Park'. The scenery was spectacular, seeing The Rockies rise out of the Prairies to fantastic heights.
During our evening drvies we spotted more deer, plus an elk wandered past our campsite. Finally we saw and brown Black Bear and her cub just to the side of the road. We were able to see the bear because of the resulting 'Bear Jam' that occurred, caused by about 7 cars and 20 old people. This let us know it was safe to exit the truck. They were very cute and we watched them for about 10 minutes while they made their way from about 10 metres away into the bush.
The days in the park were spent lazing in the 30 degree sunshine and the dusks and dawn driving to the lakes to spot wildlife.

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