Riding Mountain, Canada
Boreal forests at Riding Mountain NP ; Moose at Riding Mountain NP
We had not driven far down the road when we spotted a moose with monstrous chocolate-coloured horns, standing among the trees at the side of the road. Moose are such curious-looking creatures with their ungainly bodies and legs and their bulbous wine-bibbers' noses They always look to me as though they have been made up of discarded bits from several creatures. This animal gazed at us lugubriously for a few minutes, twisting his ears; and then, blowing out two great clouds of steam from his balloon-like nose, he moved off heavily through the trees.
Banff, Canada
Scenery at Banff
Mountain range after mountain range, like a giant stormy sea sculpted in rock. Pine forests like green fur crawling up their flanks and snow glinting on their peaks, with here and there, as though a candle had melted wax down a cliff-face, a baby glacier clinging immobile. The park was wonderful, for each time you rounded a corner a spectacular and lovely vista of mountains regaled your eye and you thought that that must be the most beautiful view if the park, only to be proved wrong when you rounded the next corner and were presented with something more stupendous.