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The sun is setting just over Red Rock Coulee, which is approximately 8 miles/ 13 km's due west in the distance. Medicine Hat is about 23 miles/ 38 km's due north of here.
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Last year, at the beginning of May we have taken a drive to Beaverhills Natural Area. The road was calling us for the sun was shining, the skies were amazing and the world awakened from winter slumber. Such a pleasure to visit again, even if it is only in pictures ;D
East of Calgary, Alberta's great agricultural plains, Canada's breadbasket, are brutally flayed by "bad land." Watered by the Deer River, there are two large areas, one around Drumheller, the other in Dinosaur Provincial Park.
Fifteen kilometers before Drumheller, stop at Horseshoe Canyon for a first view of the heart of the Badlands of Alberta. You will discover a complex and lunar tangle of canyons and mounds discovering their successive strata whose ocher palette is streaked with coal flows. This ancient seabed was over-dug by glaciers and then rivers, which explains the huge amount of fossils discovered, from oysters to the most gigantic dinosaurs.
You descend to join at the bottom of its canyon 100 meters below, Drumheller nestles in the lost valley of the Deer River. Its meanders crisscross a region where agricultural land is suddenly brutally ripped apart by erosion, here and there a "grasshopper" pumping oil to the point of thirst ...
Around Drumheller, we find ourselves immersed in an atmosphere of western and ghost towns with fairy chimneys and old coal mines abandoned at the same time as in the heart of prehistory.
A l’est de Calgary, les grandes plaines agricoles de l’Alberta, le grenier du Canada, sont sauvagement écorchées par les « mauvaises terres ». Arrosés par la Deer river, on distingue deux grands secteurs, l’un aux environs de Drumheller, l’autre au parc provincial Dinosaur.
Une quinzaine de kilomètres avant Drumheller, stoppez au Horseshoe Canyon pour une première vue du cœur des Badlands de l’Alberta. Vous allez découvrir un enchevêtrement complexe et lunaire de canyons et de buttes découvrant leurs strates successives dont la palette ocre est zébrée de coulées de charbon. Cet ancien fond marin a été sur-creusé par les glaciers puis les rivières, ce qui explique l’énorme quantité de fossiles découverte, des huîtres aux plus gigantesques des dinosaures.
Vous descendez rejoindre au fond de son canyon 100 mètres plus bas, Drumheller blottie dans la vallée perdue de la Deer River. Ses méandres sillonnent une région où les terres agricoles sont soudain brutalement éventrées par l’érosion, avec, ça et là une « sauterelle » pompant du pétrole jusqu’à plus soif…
Autour de Drumheller, on se retrouve plongé dans une atmosphère de western et de villes fantômes avec des cheminées de fée et de vieilles mines de charbon abandonnées en même temps qu’au cœur de la préhistoire.
Source : www.comptoir.fr/guide/ouest-canadien/l-alberta/les-badlan...
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Jubilee No.45699 "Galatea", running as No.45562 "Alberta" passes Greengates near Kirkby Stephen with a returning Cumbrian Mountain Express.
I always enjoy photographing old farm buildings across the Alberta and Saskatchewan prairies. This one I captured in Southern Alberta traveling between Calgary and Lethbridge.