Today was split between resting after a supermarket breakfast, and taking a trip on a cable car (they call it a gondola, but it was definitely a bog standard cable car) up to the top of Sulfur Mountain.
Once at the top we were really lucky to see the spectacular view.
Unfortunately we’d picked the only day when it was entirely covered in cloud, and was snowing at the top. Fortunately we’d booked lunch at the Sky Bistro, which had huge windows overlooking the aforementioned view. At least the food was good, and we hoped the view would improve after lunch.
The view didn’t improve much, so I made the best of it and took a few photos of other things which I could see.
Towards the end of our allotted time the cloud did break in a very specific place, so we at least got to see something, and a little more on the way back down.
We took the bus back to the hotel and collected the car, to take a drive round the Lake Minnewanka (I kid you not, that’s its real name) loop, which is about 14km long and takes you through some pretty good scenery.
We stopped numerous times to hunt for interesting wildlife. We saw ground squirrels, a herd of elk from a great distance, some deer and an American Robin. Not bad for an ad-hoc hour of driving locally to Banff.
Once back at the hotel we opted for a supermarket tea given the lunch we’d had – fresh soup with bread, a giant salad, some dubious cheese cubes which Danny chose, and some fruit. On the way out to collect it we saw a Tesla Cybertruck – monstrous thing, with panel gaps you could fall between and the corners of the bodywork had lost their paint through wear.
