Western Canada 1997

(also 1988, 1990, 1999)

From the trip to Western Canada with my daughters Zuzana and Eva (1997)
- Aug. 30 - on highway 93 between Lake Louise, Alberta and Radium Hot Springs, BC:
- Aug. 31 - Glacier National Park: hike to the Illecillewaet Glacier (pictures 2, 3 and 4 show a view of this glacier from above; especially on the 4th picture one can see how the glacier is very slowly flowing down the valley; far down on the third picture is a tiny Eva still high above the toe of the glacier):
- Sept. 1 - Illecillewaet River in the Mount Revelstoke National Park:
- Sept. 4 - Pictures from a Sunshine Coast ferry sailing from Earls Cove to Saltery Bay across the Jarvis Inlet. The last one is a view from the bowels of the ferry, from the lowest deck through the open gate in the bow, just minutes before landing at Saltery Bay:
- Sept. 5 - Early morning in the Powell River marina on the Sunshine Coast. Note the reflection of the sky on the absolutely quiet water surface. In the background is the (MacMillan Bloedel) pulp mill north of the town:
- Sept. 5 - Pictures from a ferry from Powell River on the Sunshine Coast to Comox on Vancouver Island. On the first one is again the puffing pulp mill in Powell River:
Writing-On-the-Stone Provincial Park in Southeastern Alberta (Easter 1988):
Winter Count: Record of more than 100 years of history of a Blackfoot tribe on a buffalo hide. Each symbol represents the most remarkable event of a year (winter). Taken at the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Museum in the foothills of Southern Alberta north of the town of Fort McLeod on Feb. 6, 1988:
Exotically looking fall colours in the Old Man River canyon in Lethbridge, Alberta:
An Alpine meadow in Manning Park, British Columbia, about 200 km east of Vancouver. The best time to visit is July when everything is in full bloom. That is when this picture was taken in 1990:

On the road leading to these meadows we met the chipmunk whose pictures are on the right. In the lower picture it is compared with Eva's boots. Chipmunk is the smallest member of the squirrel family, and lives in dens in the ground.
Lake Louise Hotel in the Banff National Park and a downhill skiing area far behind it on the other side of the deep Bow River valley. April 21, 1999:
Swans on the thawing Lesser Slave Lake in Northern Alberta. April 24, 1999: