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- Title: Kayaking on Lake Louise
- Description: Lake Louise is a mind-blowing Canadian Rockies destination, popular with the tourist crowd from all over the world. That was apparent on an early June day when we visited in 2023. Mount Victoria and the Victoria Glacier dominate the scene, with the waves of the wind-blown lake lapping at the shoreline in front of the Fairmont Chateau hotel. Lake Louise is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. The color of the lake changes with the light, every shade of blue imaginable, from sun-bleached turquoise to nearly purple under a dark cloud. The pretentious Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise seems out of place on a remote mountain cirque lake, but countless people took selfies of themselves with the hotel as the background, as opposed to the scenic Lake Louise. The lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is recognized globally for progressive environmental stewardship and responsible tourism. I am not too sure of the former, as a huge construction site in front of the hotel marred this otherwise pristine setting. From within the earthen crater, the sound of a jackhammer and the revving of the engine of an earth-moving backhoe drowned out the constant chatter of excited families and friends checking out their expressions on a partner's cellphone capture. Up and down the concrete walkway and rocky cobbled shoreline, we spent almost two hours taking it all in. These two kayakers, braving the winds and the waves of this blustery day provided some foreground relief in this capture.
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- Added: Jun 29, 2023
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