Joyfull Jasper

Today was our first day in one place, Jasper, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. In the morning we drove up to a mountain lake and had a boat cruise. The lake was called Maligne Lake and we passed First Island, then Second Island and finally came to Spirit Island. The scenery was spectacular, the emerald green water was fed directly from the glaciers and gets its colour from the crushed rock flour from under the glacier, and the lake was surrounded by magnificent mountains, glaciers and fir forrests, just like the postcards. The highlight of the morning was seeing a mother black bear and her two cubs playing on the side of the road and then crossing to the other side. Just when you think you have experienced the best tour of your life you go on another which is just as good. This was our hike on the Edith Cavell Mountain where we saw the angel, ghost and another glacier. We were 6,000 metres high and you could really notice the lower oxygen content of the air. Where the glaciers melt they have formed a small lake before decending down as a river, in this lake was iceburgs that we could reach and hold. This ice was estimated to be at least 10,000 years old. Tonight we go to bed early but tired and happy.