Places to stay

It seems that the holiday season started early here - finding accommodation has proved a challenging task - although we have been very fortunate in the places we have found. We are currently in a self catering apartment in the lower ground floor of a house in Field which has everything we need and is far enough away from the tourist centres to keep us sane.

Field started life as a railway town - both for the construction and then the continuing operations of the Canadian Pacific and then became the headquarters for Yoho National Park.

We are surrounded by a number of peaks over 3000m but have only caught the occasional sight of them so far because of some low cloud. However the sun is shining this morning and it looks like we may get some of those mountain views that we have missed out on so far.

Yesterday we hiked around Emerald lake - not hard to see how it got it's name:

Despite the cool weather there were a good number of people on the trail and in addition to the views, it was great to see the variety of different flowers - particularly at the top end of the lake where we found a least two different orchid species, a couple of others that we recognised and a good number that were new to us.

On the way we had stopped off at the Natural Bridge - a demonstration of the power of the water flowing in the Kicking Horse River: