Day 9 - June 6

We started the day in Strathmore AB and went backwards! Our first stop was the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller. A beautiful hot day there.  We walked around the badlands with Keefers.  Then took turns viewing the museum.  For some reason dogs are not allowed in the museum....too many bones perhaps?



Drumheller is quite a town - there are dinosaur statues everywhere. These are only a few of the ones we saw, we could have spent hours photographing them all.

The museum is excellent with lots of cool dinosaur skeletons. The museum displays take you through the evolution of life on earth using fossils from BC and Alberta. But the focus is dinosaurs. Highly recommended. Well worth a trip.

 Large dinosaur

 T-Rex I think

 A display about the Burgess Shale and the (pre?) Cambrian explosion.

 Very strange creatures at 12X scale

How could we resist this picture?  Alberta must be a little low on funds since they couldn't afford the second H!  Lol












The landscape and ecology of the bad lands around Drumheller are also fascinating.

Then we were off to Banff Alberta, where we saw the mountains first in the distance and then were surrounded by them.  We're almost to BC!  The mountains were gorgeous and this was the view Charles had hoped to show the kids 10 years ago, but that year there were many forest fires burning in BC and the tops were covered by smoke/smog.  Oh well.  :)

CSK