Jul
3
2010
And we finally saw the illusive Canadian bear. One was a baby eating at the side of the road, the other slightly bigger also along the roadside:
Jul
3
2010
So another camping trip undertaken, this time heading out of Calgary to the west to Radium Hot Springs in Kootenay National Park. Not the most exciting town we’ve been to, but it had a nice pub next to the local church – good to see that tradition is current out here; and a friendly ‘village’ hotel that did really good coffee in the morning!
The campground was called Redstreak, cost $23 per night and was well run with seriously clean toilets and showers! A 1.2km trail made it easy to get to the town, esp on Canada Day when they had live music on the street.
The main purpose was to ‘take the waters’ – the Hot Springs is basically a massive outdoor pool at 39C and has been around for almost a century -but we also visited the nearby tourist town of Invermere on July 1st for Canada Day. A lot like a trad English village fete it was full of family fun-stuff, face painting and hot dogs cooked by the scouts! We spent a few hours there including lunch at the beachside bar (like you do!!) called Ray Ray’s.