Friday, September 24, 2010

More exploring around Drumheller, AB, Sept 24, 2010

Just a few miles northwest of the RV Park is an overlook of Horsethief Canyon.

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From this overlook you could follow a social trail down into the badlands, guess where we went!  I went down to explore.

IMG_2107 Bob also went down, then he went up on top to see what he could see.

IMG_4353 This area was once the bottom on an ancient sea and yes we did find fossilized shells.

IMG_2108 Right in the center is a fossilized bone fragment and around the bone are pieces of fossilized shell and shell still in the matrix. 

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Once the road climbed up out of the valley, oil wells sprouted.

 

 

 

Soon we descended back down into the valley to a river crossing, on the Bleriot Ferry, one of the seven remaining cable ferries in Alberta.

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See the farm across the valley.  Lots of canola oil is produced from these fields.  I would love to see the fields in full yellow canola bloom.

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