Very lush green pastures, swamps, and fir lined mountainsides today provide welcome relief from bleak vistas of previous journeys. Snaking rivers with white water, both creamy green and iridescent blue. I sighted an eagle and an osprey first in the group this morning, which is good for me, who is usually asking others ‘ where is the bird’???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The train has passed through the Colombian Ranges, Selkirk Mountains, Van Horn range and Glacier National Park on the way to the Rockies. Lots of gorgeous cloud formations as backdrop to landscape and river shots.

As we pass through the valley through the little hamlet called Field, there are majestic mountains surrounding us and the kicking Horse River flows to our left. It is evening and the mountains have a lovely purple and greeny hue.

We pass through a series of spiral tunnels built in 1907…emerging through each to lovely mountain views, a tad disorienting but given the 260 degree twists underground…amazing feat of engineering.

We’ve been following Canadian freight trains and waiting for rail staff to complete line works, so our schedule has been affected. Apparently there are 100 passengers on board that are going onto Calgary, who will need to ‘detrain’ first at Lake Louise, so the rest of us (1200), will be delayed in arriving at the Fairmont until about 10pm. C’est la vie, awesome trip so far. Can’t wait to wake up, to take in that gorgeous view around the lake.