Watertown, Alberta

Sunday, July 28, after arriving and getting set up, we got our bikes out and rode around town. We saw the Prince of Wales Hotel, marina, and could ride bike around part of the lake and around the campground. We ate dinner and then we rode to see the waterfalls.


Prince of Wales Hotel


Marina


Cameron Falls

Monday, July 29, we all took a shoreline tour on the Waterton Lake. The lake is a series of deep scenic bays, sheer vertical mountains and beautiful wilderness surroundings. It is the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies. Stop-overs of approximately 1/2 hour are made at Goat Haunt, the northern gateway to Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. You can debark at a shelter, uncommercialized area for a short visit or you can hike, but you must go through the US Immigration with proper ID to remain at Goat Haunt to hike. You can then take the cruise back at different times later. The only animal we saw was an eagle and we went to dock back at town we saw two mule deer walking in the water.


Looking down the lake


USA and Canada line


USA shelter and border patrolled


Boat waiting for return


Mule deer wading in water


View when clouds cleared

About 6 pm we had a cookout with steaks, using about 10 grills, we had potato salad, bean salad, a tossed salad, rolls, and cheesecake for dessert.


Cooking steaks

After cleaning up a bit, Ken and I decided to go for a drive to the Red Canyon, before we got there we ran into hail and turned around, the road was covered with hail and a bit slippery. When we returned back to campsite it was just drizzling, no hail there. Ken talked to our neighbor camper and said that it hails quite a bit back in that area.


Hail on truck

We then called it a day.

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