Hello Yoho...and the Lakes

After leaving Golden we drove to Yoho national park and went on an early morning hike to Wapta Falls. We have been surprised by the waterfalls here. We are used to hiking a long trail to find only a trickle of water or a completely dry falls but here all the waterfalls have been flowing. We drove a little further into the park and went to Takakkaw falls and had lunch at a picnic bench next to the creek.

Driving out of Golden on a smokey morning

The morning hikes are chilly when the sun is hidden behind a cloud of smoke.

Wapta Falls - definitely not dry!

 We were still feeling energetic after lunch so we went to the visitor centre and asked about other trails. We ended up doing a 2 hour walk around Emerald Lake. We went to the tea house after we finished.  I had a hot chocolate and Rosie had a tea that we drank beside the lake. Very relaxing.

Natural Bridge - Yoho National Park

Emerald Lake

The smoke was getting a bit depressing by now - ruining all our views and photos, as well as blocking out the sun.

We planned an early start the next day but slept through the alarm. It was still quite early though. When we got up the smoke had finally started to clear a little. We drove to Lake Louise and left most of the crowds behind to hike to Lake Agnes. There is a rustic teahouse at Lake Agnes where we had a rest and tea. Then we hiked another kilometre up to the little beehive viewpoint before heading back down to Lake Louise. There we several annoying people wearing jingle bells on the trail, but no bears.

Lake Louise

We often get asked if we're twins when we travel together...the matching outfits don't help!

Hiking up above Lake Louise

Trail selfie

Mirror Lake

Filling up the tea pots from Lake Agnes

Lake Agnes

Mmmm rustic berry tea with lake water

We stopped at a picnic area for lunch and then went to Moraine Lake which seemed even busier than Lake Louise had been. We got lucky with a parking space and didn't have to walk very far at all to get away from the crowds again. We walked 3km along the lakeshore and back. When we were at Moraine Lake the smoke had almost cleared completely and it was beautiful. Rosie said it was nicer than Lake Louise and that she wanted to live there, she just needs the sleeping bag.

At Moraine Lake

Marie ruining Rosie's shot!

Rosie's new home haha

Beautiful blue Moraine Lake 

When we stopped to buy some painkillers because Rosie had a headache and I had used up all our supplies with my flu, we impulse bought some gourmet veggie burgers. They were delicious, we ate two each, we had done a lot of walking that day.

After dinner we went to the ranger presentation on grizzly bears at our campsite. It was good and informative. The campsite is surrounded by an electric fence tonight because we are right in grizzly territory. It will be nice not have to worry about running into a bear on the way to the bathroom in the night.