No more than 15 minutes in to our 5-6 hour journey we spotted a grizzly at the side of the road. There were a few other cars pulled over too, but unlike the other day, no one was getting out of their cars! Haha. I didn't manage to get any photos because of our position. Calum went to turn the car around, but we told him to stop as the bear was making it's way towards the road, which was uphill from where he was, and he stood up on his hind legs with his paws in the air to have a look across the road, as Calum is mid way through a u-turn, and pops back down on all fours and walks back towards the pushes. What a cutie he was! A big, brown, hairy cutie!
We drove through a timezone on our journey, making us 8 hours behind the UK now, instead of 7. Time travelling is weird!
We stopped at Mt Robson (see ginourmous mountain in background of image above) which is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, at 3,954 metres high. We didn't climb it of course, just parked at the visitor centre, took some photos, bought some snacks, and the boys looked at the map to check out where we were on the grand scheme of things. We couldn't actually see the top of the mountain because the clouds were covering it unfortunately. That's how tall it is! Ha.
That was the furthest north we were going and after that we began the long drive south, down through the rockies and nearer to sea level. As we drove further south the temperature started rising, reaching a maximum of 28*C, which we were very excited about, but then we bagan our ascent, once again, to Sun Peaks, our fourth destination of the week, a quiet wee ski resort.
Obviously it'll be overflowing with people in the winter, but right now there's only a handful of golfers, and small groups of people travelling across Canada! Calum and Matthew are at the bar (you're seeing a theme here...) and have met a couple from Stirling who are doing the same thing as us, but in reverse! And the barman used to live in Inverness #smallworld.
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