Moosing around in Kananaskis!

During our time on the ranch, people suggested that we try driving “the long way” to Canmore rather than taking the highway. While not necessarily a very long road, the majority of it wasn’t paved and the bits that were were twisting around the mountains with bits of rock scattered across the road. Despite this, driving this road on our first day back living in the van lead to it being one of our favourite days so far!


Kananaskis and Waterton

Kananaskis and Waterton

Even though we’ve lived in Canada for over a year now we’d only ever seen two moose; a mum and a baby in Algonquin so deep in the woods you could only really make out their ears! We pulled into a day-use car park and there they were – licking salt off a car while the occupants sat nervously waiting for a park ranger to come and rescue them!


Kananaskis and Waterton

The wildlife was out in full force today! We saw another moose standing in a valley and we had to stop on the road for what we’re pretty sure were coyotes – we’ve heard them a lot but never seen them before!


Another moose!
Kananaskis and Waterton

And it just wouldn’t be Kananaskis Country without herds of cows wandering aimlessly into the road!


Kananaskis and Waterton

We were headed down to Waterton Lakes National Park but took a few detours (most on purposeā€¦) to get our last views of these particular mountains with a dusting of snow before the road gets closed for winter.


Kananaskis and Waterton
Kananaskis and Waterton

The drive toward Waterton Lakes reminded us a bit of winter in Ontario; it felt a little like being on a vast alien planet.


Kananaskis and Waterton

Waterton Lakes National Park was very windy! The “can’t open more than one door on the van at a time” kind of windy! We’re pretty sure we almost completely lost the doors a couple of times! A lot of the roads were closed so we made-do with the spots that we could get to and they were pretty impressive! This is another on our forever growing list of parks to come back to in different seasons!


Kananaskis and Waterton
Kananaskis and Waterton

Kananaskis and Waterton

Plus, we saw another black bear!


Kananaskis and Waterton

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