We saw so much game that it reminded me of our trip to Africa and all the game drives. We took the Bow Valley Parkway at every opportunity but we saw game on every road that we took in the area. I won’t bore you with all the animal photos but I thought I should put in a few with animals that I haven’t sent photos out yet.

The first two are Big Horn sheep. These were by Lake Minnewanka. We saw 16 of them in this area. They were right near the road and they were digging alongside the road and appeared to be eating the dirt. We figured that there must be minerals or salts in the dirt that they were eating. A bit later on the same morning, we spotted a group of 17 Big Horn Sheep, so we saw quite a few of these.

Elk were another animal that we saw in abundance. The one in the third photo was right at the beginning of the Bow Valley Parkway. We saw elk with bigger racks than this guy but still, I would hate to carry all that weight and rack around on my head.

We spotted a pair of Osprey over Lake Minnewanka. We followed them across the lake and in and out of the forest. We finally got some decent overhead shots of them and I’ve included Andrew’s, which was the best. I haven’t talked much about birds but we did see lots of birds on the trip as well.