Yoho National Park, British Columbia

We continued on to Emerald Lake. The deep, rich turquoise colour of the lake is caused by the silt that is carried down in the rivers from the melting glaciers high on the mountains.  In the mountains around here fossils were discovered in 1909 by a paleontologist, Charles Walcott, in what they call the Burgess Shale. Mt Burgess is quite famous as these world's earliest modern animals are found in very well preserved fossils. Select the photo to see the beautiful view of the lake and surrounding mountains from the other side where the cabins were.