Had a beautiful day for a boat ride as we cruised the
shoreline of the Upper Waterton Lake to Goat Haunt, MT.
Signs of fall coming...
US - Canadian Border
The scenery was beautiful and we saw
an
eagle in a tree and then watched it later fly away to it’s nest deep in the
woods.
Learned that this lake freezes
solid 2-3’ deep usually beginning in Nov-May.
The “International”, the boat we were on was an 85 year old wooden boat
that had been refurbished.
We were in
the bow of course and got some good pictures.
Folks can visit the Peace Park
display there or just wander a small area and then get back on the boat, but if
you’re hiking you have to go through Customs—the agents were on the boat with
us.
Got a stamp on our passports and
left the big lense and tripod at the Ranger Station and then hiked to Kootenay
Lake.
Beautiful meadow but unfortunately, no moose munching there!
It was beautiful forest with
Engleman Spruce and aspen which were turning yellow and gold as well as a
forest floor of some sort of low growing maple.
Also lots of lichens and berry bushes.
It was 4.2 KM with little elevation gain.
a Clark's Nutcracker..
and the surrounding mountains were beautiful.
The lake was interesting, but we couldn’t see
a lot of it because of the willows—thus we didn’t see that moose that was supposed
to be in the lake.
A beaver had been very busy on several of the trees.
Did have a nice lunch by the lake though and
headed back.
We had about 2 hours before
the boat so went through the Peace Monument there and then just kicked back and
hung out.
The ride back was on a
different boat and crew and the guy speaking was much better—told a lot about
the geology of the area etc.
A beautiful day with perfect weather and marvelous scenery! Headed to the campground and made dinner—warm sleeping again tonight!
