Friday June 16 - Day
14 of trip –Banff, Canada
Nothing particularly special today. We started the day with a tour of the cave
and basin, which is right next to Banff itself.
The cave isn’t really deep, but really pretty, and it’s been etched out
and built up with H2S (hydrogen sulfide) taken from Sulfur Mountain. Water comes out of the ground at pretty high
temperature (similar to Hot Springs, Ar or Pagosa Springs, Co) and it’s been
sold as countless miracle cures by 19th century marketing majors. J
Then we took a brief walking tour of a trail adjacent to the
cave. Lots of deer and elk sign, but no sightings.
Lunch was leftovers back in camp.
After lunch we headed to Lake Minnewonka, which sounds like
a boy scout camp, but was actually a really long and beautiful lake. Rock shorelines and trails all around
it. We “hiked” up to Stewart Creek/Canyon,
which offered yet more views of the Banff area along the western shore of Lake
Minnewonka. The Canadians have about 1000 signs warning “bears in the area”,
which add considerably to a city girls paranoia. A really cool foot bridge goes over Stewart
Creek.
I’m going to start adding the “quote of the day”, because it
seems like I hear something funny every day, usually out of the kids. Todays
quote, heard by me as soon as I got back from the shower, was Travis sticking
his head in the camper and quickly stating, “taking your crocs (shoes); gotta
deuce!” which left me wondering……
“what’d my Crocs ever do to you?”
Amanda saw a small fox in camp this evening. Travis has been itching to “summit” a nearby
mountain, so I think he and I are going to give it a go tomorrow morning. Note
to self: check crocs closely before next use.
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