Chain Lakes to Belly Creek

Chain Lakes to Belly Creek
Well another day on the road of adventure and we did not travel far today. Like all of you we have that ugly thing laundry to do once in awhile and today was a day to tackle such a task. We left Chain Lakes after dumping (that is dumping the gray water and black water holding tanks in the RV). It was a lovely site and you could hear the cows at night bellowing and in the morning it was a peaceful sound coming from the pastures.
We stopped in Pincher Creek and Bev did laundry while I went to the library and did the internet thing and talked to Dr McG and Dr E . Hi to both of you and I am glad to have had the time to touch base with David it has been a long time since we talked.
Later I stopped into an OD’s office in Pincher Creek and what do you know Dr. Barton Anderson is an SCCO grad like myself (’79) and it was quite a nice conversation we had. Wished him the best and his community is just a great little place nestled here in the foothills of the Rocky Mtns.
We left as you may know the 4 lane hwy for the less travelled 2 lane country roads Hwy 22 and hwy 6 here in Alberta. It’s just great with very little traffic and the rolling hills full of hay fields, cattle and wheat and some yellow mustard. You can see for miles and miles and the sky is clear blue and on our western side are the beginnings of towering Rocky Mtns. Patches of fir and alder and white birch trees hide among the grassland pastures. On our eastern side slopes the foothills and the prairies can be seen below them.
We took a small side adventure to see the buffalo and to photograph them. Had to literally push one of them off the road so that we could move forward all the time Bev reminding me that “the could charge us at any moment” and when I got out of the Jeep she really got upset “didn’t you read the sign not to get out of your car”. “No said I, I did not and it’s a good thing that we are driving a Jeep instead of a car”.
We tried to get into the Waterton Provincial Park but they were all full so being the vagabonds that we are we travelled down the road and bypassed the commercial campground and found ourselves a primitive campground here at Belly Creek.
We’re all nestled into the trees with a great campsite.
Bev now has a ticket to come home on the 18th , so Vera if you read this blog mom should be home in time for our grandaughter’s birth. So hand in there she leaves from Missoula, Montana for ONT. And should arrive at about 8:15 at night.
Well that about sums up all of the excitement in our day today.
Lorne
1 HooDoos
2 Last of the Rockies
3 The Prairies
4 Cow country
5 Calgary Alberta Canada