Friday, August 10, 2018

Whistlers Campground, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada


Today I drove up to Maligne Lake. It's about an hour drive from Jasper.

It's still busy and hazy and hot. On the drive up, there's a lodge with a cafe.The parking lot for the lodge was full and the cafe had a line out the door at 10:00 am.

You also pass Medicine Lake. This is a strange lake with sinkholes that drain to the nearby Athabaska River. That means that during the spring, when flows into the lake are geat, the lake level rises. As the summerprogresses, the lake then starts to drain. It's draining now:




At Maligne Lake, there is another lodge with a cafe and boats that take people on tours:






At $90 for a 90 minute boat ride and $40 for a buffet lunch, I declined both.

Later, I updated the blog at the Jasper Library. They had really fast internet – 150Mb/s. When I left, you could smell the smoke in the air. Later, as I was cooking dinner outside, you could see ashes falling.

It's time to go someplace else.

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