The drive up to Banff was increasingly impressive as you headed further into the Rockies. The Okanagan, our starting point, looks quite a bit like the Lake District, but with some more arid, Mediterrean overtones. As you go along it just gets greener and/or snowier while the mountains rise higher and higher either side of you, and eventually the lakes and rivers are frozen.
I got incredibly excited when we started to see moose warning signs:
Unfortunately, while the weather gods worked their magic, the moose-gods, or perhaps the moose themselves, seemed to have gone on holiday. C'est la vie. Apparently the Rockies isn't actually the best place to see them anyway - they reckon there are only about 350 of them between Banff and Jasper, but I've got a whole summer yet, so you never know.Eventually, we entered Alberta (narrowly missing out on the chance to stop by the road along with everyone else on the highway and see a real life bear, so Tabitha assures us - me and Hannah missed it until it was too late).
And a little while later we arrived in Banff to stunning sunshine and blue skies.
We checked into the (exceptionally nice) hostel and got a mouth-watering dinner in town before turning in early, rather exhausted from all the not a lot we'd been doing. More on Banff coming soon.
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