Fantastic Canadian Rockies and Wildlife Tour of Eight Beautiful National Parks - Part 5 of 5
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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
Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 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_4.html
Some water fowl on Waterfowl Lake along Icefield Parkway
青山環抱,美川溪流,青山碧水、風光秀麗、新綠片片,幽深秀麗,
綠意濃濃,最富詩情畫意,恍入世外桃源
Revelstoke Valley as viewed from Mt. Revelstoke in Mt. Revelstoke National Park in British Columbia
層層山峰, 群峰競秀
Sample view from the Whistler mountain top
登高望遠, 風光秀麗,讓人嘆為觀止。
Jasper Valley as viewed from the mountain top
Sample view from the Whistler mountain top.
A bald eagle, perching on a post in Kootenai NWR, seemed to be watching the activities of these water fowl,
and might be looking for a weak one as the potential prey.
Pend Oreille River along scenic Highway 20 in northeast Washington State. Our return route from Montana
through Idaho and Washington State to Seattle Airport was quite pleasant, mostly along the valleys between
mountains with beautiful blue colored river as shown above accompanied by ospreys and salmons as shown in
the following:
Map: Click here to see Google Map showing Pend Oreile River





Sample view from Whistler mountain top
Many Canada geese, blue heron and other water fowl were flying or on the ponds in Kootenai NWR.
Upper station of the aerial tramway on Whistler mountain near Jasper
Scenery along Yellowhead Highway (highway 16) in Jasper National Park
In National Bison Range in Montana, we saw another deer with small antler covered with velvet.
Each year, there are large number of mature big salmons returning from Pacific Ocean swimming up the
beautiful blue colored and mighty Columbia River to their birth places to spawn. Therefore, these dams all have
fish ladders, like this one, to help salmons to overcome the obstacles imposed by these dams on their returning
journey up the mighty Columbia River.
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