After our luxurious nights sleep we pointed the Silver Bullet(Brick) East by South East and headed for Jasper. Very low cloud to start changed to slightly lower cloud and some showers. Nothing much to report but we stopped at McBride for lunch. The railway station is the place to go for lunch and it was excellent - Bacon & Bean Soup (!) + Meatloaf salad sandwich - yum. While we were having lunch a goods (freight) train pulled into the siding, it just went on and on. I asked one of the old boys outside the station about the trains, he told me that the train that had just pulled in was 1500 yards! They are planning to extend the siding to accommodate 2500 yard trains.
Later on we stopped at Rearguard Falls which is the highest point in the Fraser River that salmon swim up to spawn - 800Km from the sea. The falls were spectacular as you will see in the photos. It had started to rain there and continued as we crossed into Alberta and a new time zone - just like going to Kirkaldy!
Before you get to Jasper you enter the National Park which you have to pay a toll. Fortunately for us Martin has a yearly subscription for the Silver Bullet. On arriving at Jasper the weather really closed down with torrential rain, thunder & lightening! Eileen had to be pulled from under the bed. We are staying at Becker Chalets and it is very comfortable. Our chalet is half the top floor of a chalet over looking a large grassy area. If we could see more than 100 metres I'm sure that the views would be great.
Don't think that I'll manage to upload photos from here but I'll give it a try.
Phew that was a struggle, took over 1 hour to upload 5 pics.
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