Banff/Jasper trip 7: Medicine Lake, bears, caribou, sheep, many creatures
Part 2 of the day in which we saw all the animals.
On our way down from Maligne Lake, we decided to stop at Medicine Lake.
![Medicine Lake](/cafe/pics/banffjasper2012/medicine-lake_7462642980_o.jpg)
It was just around this time when a busload of people stopped by to ask us if we were taking shots of the bear.
“Bear?” I asked.
See if you can spot it in the far right here, before I’d been aware of it:
![Medicine Lake](/cafe/pics/banffjasper2012/medicine-lake_7462646136_o.jpg)
And then the bear turns up.
Oh wait, you thought it was just one bear? Nah, it was a whole bear family. Bear families turned out to be all the rage that day.
![Bear & cubs Medicine Lake](/cafe/pics/banffjasper2012/bear--cubs-medicine-lake_7462654456_o.jpg)
Oh hey, guess what was at that same lake?
![Caribou at Medicine Lake](/cafe/pics/banffjasper2012/caribou-at-medicine-lake_7462670406_o.jpg)
So close
This, my friends, was the moment when I finally felt justified in that trip. The whole time we kept seeing signs alerting us of caribou crossings, but naught a single one. It was like a hoax. And then he showed up, and all was right with the world.
![Caribou at Medicine Lake](/cafe/pics/banffjasper2012/caribou-at-medicine-lake_7462675214_o.jpg)
Aaaaaaand pretty soon it was a day filled with really cool sights and other wild animals. I should point out I didn’t manage to take pics of the majority that we saw, which should tell you how many they were.
![Sheep!](/cafe/pics/banffjasper2012/sheep_7462830802_o.jpg)
Again, Corene with her animal soundtrack
![At Jasper](/cafe/pics/banffjasper2012/at-jasper_7463002346_o.jpg)
Guy sittin’ and takin’ pics. Because he can.
I’d like to think Corene deliberately picked the soundtrack in anticipation of every animal we spotted. Like before, and like so: