Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta Canada

I have added quite a few photos today.  To see them all click on one to make it full size and then click on it again to scroll through all of the photos.

The weather was overcast here again this morning and I headed north to Canada to find some sun. I was a bit nervous about going through customs.  Passport and doggy papers were in order and I checked the car to make sure that I knew exactly what was in it but it is still a bit unnerving.  The Canadian border guard was so spiffy in his uniform and quite serious.  The questions were a bit strange but Clark and I were welcomed to Canada in less than a minute.  The person in front of me was pulled over.  Yikes.

Waterton was more beautiful than I remembered.  The last time Breland and I were here was in the fall of 2007 and it was very crowded then. Today there were few people.  A deer was at the entrance to the park, a grizzly on side of the road right after.  On the ride to Deer Creek I saw a total of six bears, a moose, and more deer.

One very large black bear sniffed the air as I sat in a pullover watching him.  He then ran down the mountain toward the road, sniffing as he came.  He climbed down the embankment and started toward the car but was  frightened by a car coming from the other direction and headed back up the mountain. I do think he may have been coming to visit Clark.  I, of course, had the doors securely locked and the windows up.

A cinnamon-colored black bear.

Checking out my car from high on the mountainside.

What big claws he had!

 The scenes along the way through Glacier and Waterton Parks were breathtaking.