Laird River Hotsprings Provincial Park
Today we drove through the Canadian Rocky Mountains, this is were we ran into quite a bit of road work. And this is where we saw our first wild black bear! We were very excited. We were both hoping this is just the first of many.
I have been looking forward to this ever since I had read about it six month ago. The Laird hot springs! We parked at a rest stop directly across from the Laird River Hotsprings Provincial Park. We walked to the park entry gate and paid $10 for the two of us and then we walked on a long boardwalk out to the natural hot-springs. This was incredible! it is a beautiful place to relax and take your time; enjoy the great outdoors. I dipped my toes in the spring pond which was way too hot, so we slowly entered the river area where it is not so intensely hot - we could swim around this area and that is what we did for a while. Then we sat under the falls, this was much warmer and felt like an amazing back massage. Finally we moved to the spring pond, intensively hot but this time I could handle it, very relaxing. I loved this! Mother nature is marvelous in all she has to offer.
We saw another black bear and then later we saw a baby bear run out of the woods and turn around as another cub ran after it, they both stood up on their hind legs and started to wrestle; so cute! Right before we stopped for the evening, we saw a small group of buffalo kicking-back, laying in the grass by the road and one lone buffalo was headed in our direction strolling along the road. We pulled over at a rest stop to break for the night (812 km on highway 97 West). Our rest area overlooked the Laird River, absolutely gorgeous!
Today we drove through the Canadian Rocky Mountains, this is were we ran into quite a bit of road work. And this is where we saw our first wild black bear! We were very excited. We were both hoping this is just the first of many.
I have been looking forward to this ever since I had read about it six month ago. The Laird hot springs! We parked at a rest stop directly across from the Laird River Hotsprings Provincial Park. We walked to the park entry gate and paid $10 for the two of us and then we walked on a long boardwalk out to the natural hot-springs. This was incredible! it is a beautiful place to relax and take your time; enjoy the great outdoors. I dipped my toes in the spring pond which was way too hot, so we slowly entered the river area where it is not so intensely hot - we could swim around this area and that is what we did for a while. Then we sat under the falls, this was much warmer and felt like an amazing back massage. Finally we moved to the spring pond, intensively hot but this time I could handle it, very relaxing. I loved this! Mother nature is marvelous in all she has to offer.
We saw another black bear and then later we saw a baby bear run out of the woods and turn around as another cub ran after it, they both stood up on their hind legs and started to wrestle; so cute! Right before we stopped for the evening, we saw a small group of buffalo kicking-back, laying in the grass by the road and one lone buffalo was headed in our direction strolling along the road. We pulled over at a rest stop to break for the night (812 km on highway 97 West). Our rest area overlooked the Laird River, absolutely gorgeous!
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ReplyDeleteThanks Mark and Barbara.
ReplyDeleteWe are loving this trip!