Category: landscape

Battle Creek Road Trip – History and Spectacular Scenery

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Battle Creek Road, Cypress Hills, Alberta

Flowing through both the Alberta and Saskatchewan sections of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, plus Fort Walsh National Historic Site, Battle Creek is one of the shorter waterways on the Canadian Prairies. Yet, few can match it for the mix of history and scenery around every corner of its meandering course.     Located at the northern extent of the Gulf of Mexico watershed, the creek… Read moreBattle Creek Road Trip – History and Spectacular Scenery

Exploring the Columbia Icefields

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Ice Explorer

The massive Columbia Icefield is the highlight of the spectacular Icefields Parkway, a driving route of 230 kilometres between Lake Louise and Jasper in the Canadian Rockies. Encompassing parts of Banff and Jasper National Parks, you can see seven major glaciers and around 25 smaller ones along the way. Things really get interesting about half way along where glacier tongues extending from the Columbia Icefield… Read moreExploring the Columbia Icefields

Hoodoo Hunting in Dinosaur Provincial Park

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Hoodoos in evening light, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta

  Approaching Dinosaur Provincial Park in southeast Alberta, we come to a valley rim where the land suddenly drops into a vast expanse of spectacular badlands, the largest anywhere in Canada. The park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in part because of the landscape, but also because it has the world’s largest deposits of dinosaur fossils from the Late Cretaceous period – about… Read moreHoodoo Hunting in Dinosaur Provincial Park

Photographing Jasper’s Spirit Island

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Spirit Island

It’s almost a cliche to refer to an “iconic scene” or a “Kodak moment”, but in the case of Jasper National Park’s Spirit Island, both descriptions are a perfect fit. In the 1940s the Kodak company sent photographer Peter Gales to get images to promote Kodak film. One shot he took was of a tiny island in Jasper’s Maligne Lake. The photo was enlarged to… Read morePhotographing Jasper’s Spirit Island

Photographing Cape Breton’s Spectacular Cabot Trail

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The Cabot Trail on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island ranks among the most scenic drives in North America. While only about 300 kilometres long, it packs in an incredible amount of variety, with breathtaking coastal scenery on both the east and west coasts, forests, picturesque valleys, and Canada’s largest inland sea.   A third of the route winds through Cape Breton Highlands National Park. The… Read morePhotographing Cape Breton’s Spectacular Cabot Trail