Day 11

Mariah took us on a Nice morning drive 120klm to Takakkaw Falls in the Yoyo National Park which are fed from the Daly Glacier, well worth the drive. Next stop arranged by Mariah was the Kicking House wild bear refuge approx 20 acres of high fenced wilderness on the side of a mountain. We had to take a ski lift to get 3/4 of the way up the mountain to the refuge.

Mariah also booked us to participate in filling Bo special feeding toys. They only have Bo at the moment he was orphaned at 5 mths after some low life killed his mum. Later got fined $9000 for his troubles. Bo is 20yrs old. Unfortunately Bo was too busy snoozing and didn't come out of the bush. The 2 staff there gave us a great talk about bears and answered any questions. Then they showed the ladies how to fill his big feeding toys with carrots grapes sweet potato jam and peanut butter.

Next stop was Emerald Lake, a freshwater lake in Yoho National Park, is known for its striking emerald green color. The lake's colour comes from glacial flour, a fine rock substance created by melting glaciers that disperses sunlight in the water. The effect is most visible in the summer when the light reflects off the suspended rock flour and glacial silt.

There was a lovely lake side lodge there and we just got our dinner order in before the 6.40pm cut off. On the way home about 800m from Banff we spotted a brown bear eating grass only 30m away from Annies half marathon course, what a treat and made up for not getting to see Bo Czytaj więcej