Lazing by the Lake

02/07/15

The end of our trip is fast approaching and while we want to relax and enjoy our time off work, we also want to see and do as much as we can! We decided to get the best of both worlds by having a day relaxing and swimming in a local lake. We headed in to town, stopped off at Bear Paw Bakery and got a nice assortment of sandwiches, salads and cinnamon rolls!

Armed with a trusty free map of Jasper we set off in search of Lake Edith and Lake Annette. These lakes are the residuals of a lake that covered the entire valley during the ice age. They’re fed by an underground river system and unlike the surrounding lakes and rivers, they aren’t ice cold! We picked a spot on the shore and spent the afternoon sunbathing and swimming in the crystal clear water! It was a brilliant way to spend the day but if I had one complaint it would be that the bottom of the lake was a bit soft and squidgy – come on Nature, get it together! Naturally Rory, who is absolutely terrified of sunburn and wears a t-shirt all the time, didn’t put any sun cream on his legs. They were roaring red when we got back, something that may or may not have been made worse by sitting in the hotel’s hot tub!

That evening we faced another difficult decision – where to go for dinner. Despite being someone who doesn’t particularly like chains we decided to eat at Earls because it seems to be a Canadian institution. I was pleasantly surprised by my salad and tortilla soup – why the UK can’t master a salad I will never know! It’s not that hard – cover it in stuff that’s bad for you, make sure it’s loaded with calories and you’ll have  a successful salad! We finished the evening with a Tim Hortons – something I wish I had tried earlier and then we headed back to spend our last night in Alpine Village.