Day 15 - Road to Waterton, Alberta

Since we arrived late last night, we slept in and got on the road only at noon. Waterton is the center town in Waterton Lakes National Park. The drive there was 6 hours long, so we were scheduled to arrive only for the night. Waterton Lakes National Park is in the very south-west corner of Alberta, close to the border with British Columbia. With entering Alberta today we entered into the next timezone but since Saskatchewan doesn't use Daytime Saving Time the time on the clock didn't change. The road through Alberta was different from the one in Saskatchewan. Huge wheat plains changed to huge herds of the famous Alberta beef. After being through the heart of Alberta, the silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains started to appear.

Waterton is a lakeside resort town in the lower Rockies of Canada, and the park around it a pocket of tranquility and mostly untouched. Bears roam here freely, frequently crossing the roads. We have seen two bears right next to the road, they seemed to be used to the cars by now. One of the bears was literally next to the shoulder of the road when I stopped next to him. I lowered the window and turned on my video camera. He is used to cars, but seemingly not to camera noises. My camcorder's turn on sound made the bear stay up on 2 feets looking around. He is so much taller then he looks normally when he stands up. Amazing footage on my camcorder, but no still pictures though, sorry. Have to extract the video from my camera first.