Western Canadian Rockies (WCR) – Mabel and Rita’s pictures

While on the Zuiderdam, Mabel and Rita went on several extra excursions then we did and were nice enough to share some of her photos. In Whistler they went on the float plane sightseeing which flew over the mountains.

They flew over one of the lakes in the mountains.  The river at the bottom of the picture shows the silt coming into the lake.

As you can see from the pictures, the scenery in the air was fantastic.  Since this is mid June and there is plenty of snow still on the mountains it is hard to say of any of these are glacial.

This mountain has a sharp peak jutting up from the ridge.

Mabel and Rita were on the float ride with us in Jasper down the Athabasca River.  They were sitting on the other side of the raft and captured Carmen (in front on the right), me (behind Carmen), Helen (my sister behind my right elbow) and Charlie (her husband on her right).

While on the cruise, I think in Juneau, Mabel and Rita went on a whale watching trip.  There they said they did not see any whales until just about when they were going to head back.  Then they saw a pod of whales and took some pictures.

They were able to capture two of the whales flipping their tails at about the same time.

They also caught the ending splash of a whale breeching.  That must have been a fantastic sight.

On another excursion, they went to a place that bred and trained dogs for dog sledding.  Here are the dogs ready to pull them in the “summer” dog sled.

 

Here everyone is sitting in the dog “buggy”.  Rita and Mabel are in the second row as the buggy is getting ready to go.

 

  They looked so cute, I think Rita couldn’t help but that their picture.

These are a couple of the dog sled puppies that were being raised.

Thanks to Mabel and Rita for sharing their pictures, it was much appreciated – Bob and Carmen.