On the train

The Rocky Mountaineer company is efficient in moving large numbers of people, in the first stages of this trip, 750, and stuffing them with food. The views look after themselves. We have seen from our windows most of the recommended wildlife- a baby black bear, Canada geese, a heron, ospreys, and huge pole nests like those used by storks in Europe. We missed the bald eagle.

It's hard to take good photos from a moving train and two tone glass (the upper portion of the dome is light sensitive and less translucent in strong light), though it sometimes slows almost to a stop for particular opportunities.

Today's trip was along a river (Fraser) where inconsiderate maples and firs often obscured the view, then through a wilderness with saltbush or plain bare seemingly from mining and timber getting.

It's apparently been a bad bushfire season , we saw notices of closure of areas due to extreme fire danger, and smoke haze obscured the sun all day.