Peyto Lake

Nikon D80 / Tokina 12-24mm / Singh-Ray soft-grad ND filter.

One of the most beautiful lakes in the Rockies (to me), besides Medicine Lake, Moraine Lake, and Waterton Lake.

We drove past (yes, without stopping) Peyto Lake on the way to town of Banff. All the way straight from Jasper, which was quite a few hours drive. Needless to say, the Nanny was tired and required neck massages along the way, and our fuel tank was going low.

When we reached Banff and started our plans to visit the nearby scenics, I was like, hey, Peyto Lake is nearby! (which the map claimed it was) so we set out all the way to Peyto, only to find out that after about 40 minutes we were STILL driving there. Nanny went mad, cos it was on Icefields Parkway, the way that we had gone to Banff by. Kept telling him to turn back to Banff, but he was as stubborn as a mule and drove all the way to Peyto while complaining non-stop. "It better be good!"

At the Peyto turnoff, we realised there was a steep climb to the lake lookout, also known as Bow Summit. More complaining, by the sister too (: unfit people! haha (:

THEN we reached the top! And gosh, it was such a beautiful view, a turquoise lake shaped like a fox, surrounded by majestic mountains and verdant forest.

Haha, then, Nanny stopped complaining (: