So this will be my last email from our western Canada trip. Just wanted to send
a couple of photos of some of the animals we saw. I think both Joani and I were
amazed at the amount of wild animals we saw on this trip. The most incredible
was when we were driving down a divided highway in Jasper National Park.
We
turned a corner and there was a family of goats walking down the side of the
road.
We
stopped, along with many other cars, and the Papa goat stopped at our open car
window and posed for a photograph.
Joani
thanked him, and then we went on our way. When we took the Sky-tram to
the top of Whistler mountain we came across incredibly fat squirrels
and marmots
who also
posed for photos, although they may have actually been begging for food.
When we went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge park we were treated to the site
of a baby Barred Owl
who had been
separated from his parents and was being raised by the park staff until they
could release him into the wild. We didn't get pictures of the caribou
and elk that we saw, or a deer that popped out of the woods 20 metres from our
car. . And unfortunately, although everyone else in our group saw grizzly
and black bears, we did not. We were disappointed but not sure in
the long run if it was a good thing, in case we became bear breakfast.
Garry
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