I was lucky enough to conduct surveys at Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park. This place is absolutely stunning. Unfortunately i never got a photo of the Lake, so am uploading one from the internet so you can see how beautiful it was!
Emerald Lake is extremely busy, due to the beauty of it. There were people arriving by the bus load (literally) to come and see the lake. For surveys we needed to situate ourselves in such a place as to catch people that were hiking either around the lake or hiking one of the trials off the lake as we didn’t want to survey people that were just stepping off the bus to look at the lake!
The spot we chose was perfect and we had a very success 5 days of surveying here. As usual we did get a number of refusals for varied reasons but all in all it was extremely successful. Thanks to Grace, Margaret and Peggy who helped out with surveys at Emerald Lake.
On the first day of surveys I was accompanied by Grace and her boyfriend Rob. Grace and I conducted surveys for the morning while Rob fished in the lake.
We decided to make a day out of this trip to Yoho so not only did we walk around the lake. We also visited the Natural Bridge which was pretty impressive…
We also stopped of at Takakkaw Falls. The biggest waterfall I have seen in my life. And we were able to walk right up to it which only took around 10 minutes. Well worth it.
After the falls we needed to stop off at the Tramline Trail in Lake Louise to pick up the track stick drop box. While in Lake Louise we deiced to go to Moraine Lake, I was told it was a beautiful lake but its something else when you actually see it in person.
We spent the rest of the afternoon here, Grace and Rob fished while i sat and watched in the sun. Great afternoon. Great day in general. Feeling very lucky to be here and being able to visit all these wonderful places.
My Placement Year - 30 weeks of wildlife, travelling, data analysis and everything in-between 