To start off we stopped off at Jasper lake to take a few pictures. It's really quite nice there!
Jasper has many little lakes in the near by area. That's right... we drove to all of them!
Here's Medicine Lake. It looks full here... but really it's actually quite dry...
This is Maligne Lake. Apparently there's this ferry that takes you around and it's worth it. But when we went it was way too early in the season since the lake was still partially frozen. Actually there were a lot of fish in there too! Not sure if people are allowed to fish there though...
Next stop on the drive we headed to Maligne Canyon. It looked very different not frozen. However, I think it's prettier when it's frozen. That mound of white patch of ice was the thing that Melyse and I climbed into while we were walking on the frozen river.
Once we got to the 5th and 6th bridge, I think the scenery started to look a lot nicer.
Lake number four was Lake Annette. There were a few scuba divers there practicing. The sun was in the perfect position in the sky. It looked so pristine!
Lucky number five was Lake Edith. This one wasn't that pretty...but there was a man sleeping under a tree looking quite peaceful. I tried not to take a picture of him, as I imagined I'd look quite creepy...
Of course we had to stop at Lac Beauvert. I remembered how pretty it was frozen and in my opinion it's 100x better thawed. It was such gorgeous weather there, BUT SOO MANY MOSQUITOES MURDERING US! Standing in one place to take a picture was ridiculously difficult!
After that we decided to drive through the Jasper townsite. There actually wasn't a lot. So then we went to yet another couple of lakes near by, Pyramid Lake
...and Patricia Lake,
... and ate a bit of food in our car. I did that to avoid the mosquitoes attacking me.
now we start our drive back down the highway towards Banff. I know what you're thinking. Are you done with the lakes yet? HA. No. This was one of my favourite Lakes. There weren't a lot of people around and the colour of the water is amazing. It was a great rest stop.
The weather had been great all weekend, but then things started to go bad as we were driving home... lots of rain/show...but my the time we got to banff, all had cleared up and we enjoyed a nice pub dinner. These are a few of the pictures on our way back to Banff.
Once again, the best way to end the night...is at the hot springs!
Final Thought: When taking pictures, immediate label them... it took forever to determine what was what...especially if it's a body of water.
also...this is dedicated to Christine, you know with some bodies of water.
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