Waterton Lake and Boat

I got up around 8 in the morning.  It will be hard to photograph here today, the clouds are low so no grand vistas and its raining just a bit too much to go looking for wildlife.  I think I will go to Canada, if the weather isn’t better up there I will just make a day of being out of the country for the first time in my life.  I am looking forward to it in either case.

Made it through customs without a hitch.  I really like the town of Waterton and the weather is cooperating enough to get some really good shots or so I think.  Most of my shots recently feel more like tourist shots because I am not going much beyond what they do to get photographs.  I guess this is where workshops always come in handy.  They take you places most others don’t know about and you get really good shots.  

I ate at a really good place with a view of the lake and the mountains.  I got some canadian cash and plan on using it around a few of the small shops.  I asked the hostess when checking out about their winters up here.  She said they usually have about 50 people that winter here with only one restaurant and the local gas station being open that time of year.    It’s funny but for the size town it is I would say maybe 500 in the summer season it does have a subway.  Although I chose to partake of the local fare, because I can eat subway at home or on the road. I really hate to leave here, but I have to be back across the border by 6:00 or end up having to drive to another port of entry further away.  It is getting really cold and really windy.

Waterton Lake and Prince of Wales Hotel

I am both sad and glad I left and am heading more east and south.  From the radio it appears that the mountains could have as much as 6 inches of snow tonight and the plains an inch or so.  It looks like I will miss Avalanche Gorge, but I am really going to have to come back and bring Nikki with me.  Montana has been my favorite location and so a trip back is not unforeseeable. It has all been wonderful and I did get a stamp in my passport (they will still stamp it if you ask them to), but I do miss my wife and our puppies.  Nikki has been fighting bronchitis so I hope she is getting better and hope she has gotten over it by the time I get home.  The GPS application on my phone says 3333.7 kilometers (I guess because I put in the canadian address first) to get home so I guess it is time I head that way.