MONDAY 25TH –MORAINE LAKE AND BANFF

Another spectacular day. Perhaps the highlight of our trip so far (although that’s a big call) is Moraine Lake. It is certainly one of the most picturesque scenes we have seen so far. The photo above is clearly the photo of the day. I have included the one below just to prove we were there.

From Moraine Lake we headed for Banff. On the way we stopped off at Johnston Canyon and did the walk up to Lower Falls.it was particularly impressive for a location which didn’t seem to get that great a mention in the tourist information. The history of those sorts of places is fascinating. The railway came and a railway induced tourism industry followed. That is a common theme around here.

We then checked out Banff. It was surprisingly unimpressive by comparison with Lake Louise. We went to the Banff Gondola but the queue was unacceptably long and, compared to Whistler, the height to which the gondola went was not all that high so we gave that a miss. 

We then went to the Banff Hot Springs. How depressing was that, sharing a not very large swimming pool with about 100 bodies, so we gave that a miss too.

To be fair, the scenery was spectacular. Banff is in a valley (as all towns here are) surrounded by awe inspiring mountains. We will have to come back in winter but we won’t be doing that in a motorhome.

Tomorrow we head up the Icefields Parkway and hope to be having a ride in the monster below. It’s only five days since we were riding the buses in Vancouver but that seems a world away. I hope everything is going well in the real world back home.