October 2009

Our last few days in Canada, for now anyway, were spend travelling along the Cowboy Way into Glacier National Park, which spans over the border into both countries.

We got caught out with snow at Waterton Park, which is part of Glacier, continued to Great falls, Montana to stay at my nieces for a few days for a family catch up, with even colder weather!

From Great Falls, through Montana's side of Yellowstone Park into Idaho and the Grand Tetons, on to a little warmer but snow covered Salt Lake City.

Onto Southern Utah, to beautiful State and National Parks and Monuments, enjoy this month.

This highlevel bridge in Lethbridge, stands 96M (314 feet) high and has a length of 1623M (1 mile 47feet) it is the longest, highest bridge of it's kind in the world.

Waterton Lake, we arrived around midday and had no snow, by 4pm we had a nice thin powder like cover and the next morning looked like..........

This, and the snow kept coming, so time to get out!.

Dan our friend from Laguna had joined us in Montana at my nieces house. She had just signed up for this cute house and we were having a look at it.

Here we are In Trix her herbal and massage office,her partner Mark has his law office in the same building, convenient.

We all took a trip to the hotpools in Very cold weather, along a magic road with a sub zero pick-nick, before heading into the pools for a much needed hotdip!

Phillipsburg is in the middle of a rich area for gemstones and gold and one of the very few places in the States where you can fossick for Sapphires. Yes we did find some beauts.

Stop over for the night in Whithall were we went for a walk through town to admire 20 or so murals depicting Lewis and Clarks travels.

Great open planes with hundreds, no thousands of head of cattle, not for nothing is this part of Montana known as Beef country.

Just a beautiful sunset.

Lots of little and bigger Ghosttowns in Idaho, were we had crossed into for a little detour through gem and gold country.

Bison statues can be found all throughout Montana, are made by local artists, auctioned off to the publis with the proceeds going to the preservation of the Buffalo.

In Yellowstone National Park we crossed over the Continental Divide three times.

Old Faithful, Yellow Stone Parks most famous Geyser.

Absolute beautiful weather in Grand Teton National Park, the reflections were just amazing.

Salt Lake City the headquarters of the Saint Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church. There might be an economic downturn in most of the world but in Salt Lake the were investing in the town like no where else.

This photo is taken on top of the Mormon Convention Centre, the building is so big that it has 5 acres of roofgardens and it can seat up to 21000 people at any one time.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is one of the oldest and most famous church choirs in the world and we went to a rehearsal which was fantastic..

The largest open cast copper mine in the world, it can be seen from outer space just like the Great Wall of China. It is located just outside of Salt Lake and Darren went on a tour there.

Antilope Island is an Island located in the Lake at Salt lake and is a sanctuary for Buffalo, when we were there it was the annual round up and at least 200 cowgirls and cowboys and wanta-ta-bees where bringing them in for a check up.

We have taken so many phot's in Utah from the different parks that we have decided to put a few in November but have also made a seperate file called Parks and we will put some more photo's on that page for you to have alook at.

So two photo updates from November enjoy.

October 2009

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