Thursday, July 15, 2010

Saturday, July 10, 2010, Jasper National Park

Today we drove down the Icefield Parkway to see 2 beautiful falls along the way, the Athabascan Falls

From Jasper 2010-07-10
and the Sunwapta Falls. 
From Jasper 2010-07-10
Both of these falls are spectacular, to see the tremendous force of the water and the stone canyons that these falls have carved out.  A coyote was spotted in our travels.  We returned to the town of Jasper for lunch at Jasper Pizza and a little shopping in the town.  We returned back to the campground – Joanne wanted to do some laundry, Larry was going to see about getting his truck washed and Tom and I wanted to return to Jasper to shop around a little more.  Joanne did a load of wash for $8.00 and stopped,  Larry went to the car wash at 4 but it was closed (this is the same one that stated open 12-6), and Tom and I looked but didn’t do much buying.  As Tom and I were leaving town we saw a coyote along the road and then closer to the campground we saw an elk along a river.

From Jasper 2010-07-10