Thursday, November 16, 2017

Lake Louise & The Beehives


A short track from the crowds at Lake Louise leads via a couple of lovely lakes up to two mountain viewpoints known as 'The Beehives', Big and Little Beehives in fact.


The viewpoint on Big Beehive, from the Little Beehive. Note the smoke from the BC forest fires in the air.


Lake Louise bottom left, Lake Agnes hiding in under the peaks to the right.


Mirror Lake, blue, cold, beautiful and the site of a little tea house, which uses the Lake water to brew up hot, refreshing cuppas up in the mountains. Don't believe their website though.... they don't do coffee!


Looking down from the Little Beehive, over Lake Louise through thick forest fire smoke. The BC forest fires were so bad during the summer of 2017 that friends in Edmonton could smell it clearly and scientists monitoring air quality on the East Coast could detect it too.



Silty delta where the river flows into the blue, waters of Lake Louise.

Final view through the smoke towards the hotel, from the descent path on the Beehives walk.

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