Got up early for a bear hunt this morning! Rumor has it there are bears up thar at Red
Rock Canyon! This drive goes from the
prairie grasslands into the mountains abruptly as it goes up the Blakiston
Valley. Saskistoon Berries grow on the
hills through here and the bears love them…ah, our first sighting just as the
bear is leaving the road into the woods—a fleeting sighting!
Another bear – also on the road and then we were at the
end of the road at the Red Rock Canyon Walk.
Finally some red rock appearing.
It’s a water-carved gorge
lined with red argillite that contains a high percentage of iron in the
bedrock. The iron oxidizes and turns red
when exposed to the air. It was
beautiful and the early morning light made it look really nice. Part of it was a really deep gorge! Back in the car and before we got out we ran
into a bear jam so ended up with three bears. When we got back down to the main road we decided we had really covered Waterton so went back to the campground, took down the nice dry tent and headed northwest.
After an hour or so of driving we stopped in Cardston, a little town in the middle of nowhere and had lunch at the local Subway (they're everywhere!). Cardston is where the Mormon temple for Canada and northern Montana was constructed in 1923. There is a very large Mormon presence in Alberta and southern British Columbia with a church in almost every small town. Another claim to fame is that Fay Wray was born here. But we headed headed for the Remington-Alberta Carriage Museum. It is another Alberta Historical Museum Their brochure says this about the Museum "The award-winning Remington Carriage Museum is the world's finest museum of horse-drawn vehicles with over 250 carriages, coaches, buggies, wagons, sleighs and other specialized vehicles." Here's just a sample of the carriages...
work wagons....
Sheep wagons...these always fascinate me as my Mom was born in one in Wyoming.
Pretty tight living quarters!
