The 2 photos show Mt. Rundle, which is, far and away, my favorite mountain here! I've never seen a huge mountain in this shape before. As it turns out, millions of years ago, for whatever reasons, one edge of this mountain just rose up from the valley where it was located. This mountain is unbelievably enormous and spectacular. I like looking at it while trying to imagine the forces that propelled it upward.
The photos were taken at Vermillion Lakes and the bottom one is a long view, while the top one is as close-up as my little camera goes!
One additional note about the Vermillion Lakes. There are 3 of them and they contcined the first birds other than crows, ravens and magpies we had seen! We saw Grey jay, Ring-billed gulls (can be seen in lower photo), Green-winged teal, and, sighting of the day: SORA!! We saw 2 of these shy and secretive rails at the grass edge of the water about 25 meters from us. Truly a FINE bird!
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