Fantastic Canadian Rockies and Wildlife
Tour of Eight Beautiful National Parks -
Part 4 of 5
寧靜的湖泊，  令人難忘的碧藍和純淨。

A corner of Maligne Lake.
The sequence of our 13-day driving tour of Canadian Rockies is:

Seattle, Washington State, USA --------> Mt. Revelstoke National Park (NP) in British Columbia (BC),
Canada --------> Canadian Glacier NP in BC ---------> Yoho NP in BC --------> Lake Louis in Banff NP in
Alberta --------> Scenic Icefield Parkway going north in Alberta --------> Jasper NP in Alberta ----------->
Scenic Icefield Parkway going south in Alberta --------> Banff NP in Alberta ---------> Kootenay NP in BC
--------->  Highway 93/95 going south in BC --------> Waterton Lakes NP in southern Alberta -------->
Bison National Range in Montana, USA --------->   Pablo National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Montana
---------> Ninepipe NWR in Montana ---------> Glacier NP in Montana, USA --------> Kootenai NWR in
Idaho, USA --------> Little Pend Oreille NWR in northeast Washington State --------> Lake Chelan in
central Washington State, Chelan Gorge and Bridge ---------> Rocky Reach Dam ---------> Seattle in
Washington State, USA


More photos and stories are presented in Part 5 of this series of web pages on the fantastic Canadian
Rockies.

Parts 1, 2, 3 and 5 of this series on fantastic Canadian Rockies are at the following web pages:

http://www.shltrip.com/Canadian_Rockies_1.html

http://www.shltrip.com/Canadian_Rockies_2.html

http://www.shltrip.com/Canadian_Rockies_3.html

http://www.shltrip.com/Canadian_Rockies_5.html
峽谷中的湖，藍瑩瑩的湖面如同一面鑲嵌在林海雪谷中的明鏡，在粼
粼柔波，點點光斑映下，夢幻迷離。

Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park. From Yellowhead Highway (i.e., Highway 16), drive south on Maligne
Valley Road for 48 Km to the end to reach Maligne Lake. It is about one-hour drive southeast from Jasper.

Map: click here to see Google Map showing location of Malign Lake
The mountain goats that we saw while hiking on the Hidden Lake Boardwalk Trail at Logan Pass on
Going-To-The-Sun-Road in (US) Glacier National Park.

We also saw many big horn sheep on roadside when we were traveling on Yellowhead Highway (i.e., Highway
16) in Jasper National Park, at Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park and on a pebble road going from
Highway 93/95 to Whiteswan Lake.

We also saw many female elks on roadside when we were traveling on Yellowhead Highway in Jasper National
Park.
This mother osprey (fish hawk) just brought a fish from the nearby Saint Mary Lake to this nest to feed the two
young ospreys in the nest near the visitor center and Going-To-The-Sun-Road at the east entrance to the (US)
Glacier National Park.

At first, we saw only two ospreys in the nest flapping their wings, jumping up and down and chirping osprey
sound rapidly. We were wondering why these two ospreys were so excited on the nest. Then we saw the
mother osprey flying in carrying a fish and landed on the nest. Then, we realised that the two young ospreys
high on the nest must have seen their mother flying in with a fish at a distance before we, standing low on the
ground, could see the mother osprey coming. The young ospreys were so excited because good meal was
coming.

More photos of ospreys in action diving from mid-air down into ponds to catch fish can be seen at my web page
at:

http://www.shltrip.com/Ospreys_in_Action.html
At Logan Pass in (US) Glacier National Park, we saw several big horn sheep in addition to mountain goats
酷似宏偉的城堡群的城堡山

Castle Mountain along Bow Valley Parkway in Banff National Park
Scenery along Icefield Parkway in Banff National Park
At Logan Pass in US Glacier National Park atop the Continental Divide at about 6,646 feet of elevation, many
tourists were hiking on the 1.5-mile boardwalk trail to go to see the Hidden Lake, many mountain goats and
other wildlife.

Map: Click here to see Google Map showing location of Logan Pass
Scenery along Icefield Parkway in Banff National Park
Dutch Creek Hoodoos along Highway 93/95 in Columbia Valley near Columbia Lake in British Columbia when
we were traveling from Kootenay National Park to Waterton Lakes National Park.

Map: Click here to see Google Map showing location of Dutch Creek Hoodoos
When we saw a group of deer, two baby deer closest to us ran quickly to their mother. We thought that these
two baby deer were going to hide behind their mother due to our presence - - -
Instead, the two baby deer ran under their mother deer - - -
Then the two baby deer were sucking milk from the mother deer while the mother deer watched us intensely to
threat to them so that the two baby deer could continue enjoying sucking milk from their mother.

I was somewhat surprised to see that the two baby deer suck the milk not in a gentle manner but in a
concerted strong push and lunge up and forward such that the mother deer had to step back one or two steps
for each of the strong concerted push from the two baby deer.
橋下一泓碧水，不盡江水滾滾來，碧波蕩漾， 清澈可人濯我心。

When we were on a bridge along Highway 93/95 crossing the beautiful blue colored Kootenay River on
our way from Kootenay National Park to Waterton Lakes National Park - - -
We saw an elk at a distance away also crossing the Kootenay River.

Kootenay River and Kootenay Lake have:

(A) white sturgeon (鱘魚) which is the largest fresh water fish in North America and it can weigh up to 800
kilograms as explained in the following website:

http://www.greatcanadianlakes.com/british_columbia/kootenay/eco_page3.htm  

and

(B) Gerrard  trout which is world's largest trout and can weight up to 23 kilograms and up to 1.5 meters in
length as described in the following website:

http://www.greatcanadianlakes.com/british_columbia/kootenay/species-home.html
This is the sign of the Continental Divide at Vermilion Pass with elevation of 5,382 feet above sea level on
Highway 93 when we were going from Banff National Park in Alberta into Kootenay National Park in British
Columbia. The Canadian Rocky Mountain Range along the long border of British Columbia Province and Alberta
Province is the Continental Divide where the rivers on the west side flow to Pacific Ocean and the rivers on the
east side flow to Atlantic Ocean.  In this 13-day driving trip, we crossed the Continental Divide several times at
different points/passes along this long border.
Sinclair Canyon at the west entrance to Kootenay National Park
Scenery along Highway 93 in Kootenay National Park
We saw this massive bird nest, probably an eagle nest, high on top of a very tall tree when we were driving
along Highway 83 near Swan Lake in northwest Montana, USA.
哥倫比亞湖是哥倫比亞河的源頭，而從這裡往西邊望去，會讓你感嘆哥倫比亞河奔流到海
不復回的雄渾。


Columbia Lake on the west side of Canadian Rockies along Highway 93/95 in Columbia Valley in British
Columbia, Canada. This 9-mile long lake is the source of mighty Columbia River which flows north from
here for hundreds of miles before it turns south and flows for another 1,000 miles through central
Washington State in USA, then turns west to flow along the border of Washington State and Oregon,
through Portland and finally flows into Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon.

Map: Click here to see Google Map showing location of Columbia Lake


We saw bald eagle and ospreys in flight and several osprey nests near this large lake.

The Kootenay River, that we crossed earlier, also feeds into the mighty Columbia River. The maps of
Columbia River and Kootenay River are available at the following website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kootenai_River
Sinclair Canyon - Located at the gateway of Radium Hot Springs and Kootenay National Park south exit.
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