Day #7 - Elk Island National Park

We ate breakfast at the campsite, all took advantage of the showers at the Watrous campground except for Daddy and packed up the site. We were out around 10:00 am.

Our first stop was downtown Saskatoon where we went to a bakery and drove through the Saskatchewan University campus. Then we kept on driving through the prairies and stopped in North Battleford for groceries and lunch.

Right on the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan, there is the town of Lloydminster. Also, the 4th meridian is there, there are four big red poles and apparently is is the world’s longest survey line.

Once in Alberta, it was still prairie, but we started to see more little hills and rises in the terrain.

We stopped in Vegreville to see the world’s largest Ukrainian Easter egg! It is called a pysanka. It is intricately decorated with designs and it rotates with the wind. Very cool!

Then a bit further down, in Mundare, we got gas which happened to be right across the street from the world’s biggest sausage!!!

Pulling into the park around 6, there were Texas gates entering and making enclosure for the wildlife and seperating them from the campground part of the park. We drove around looking for wildlife and saw 2 bison. One of them was right on the side of the road and the other was grazing around the park employees’ house, scratching against the tree. We also saw a few pairs of deer, some young calf’s with their white spots, as well as a coyote on the side of the road. We went for a little walk on a trail in search of moose, but only saw tracks and poop.

Our campsite is really only meant for an RV because it floods with rain and it had rained today, so it was flooded. We just barely fit our tent on a small flat patch of grass in the middle of our campsite and neighbouring one. It was pretty funny!

Then in the morning before leaving the park for Jasper, we went on another Canadian Safari! We saw a herd of about 40 bison, some of which were young calves, grazing, rolling around in the dirt and scratching.

Once we got on the road, we stopped in Old Strathcona, Edmonton. It is a older, little quaint part of town with stores and market.

We started to see more trees and hills and got our first views of the Rockies!