Come Walk With Us on the Trans Canada Trail (TCT)

When we left the Lea Park campground this morning and headed back across the yellow span bridge over the North Saskatchewan River, the pale yellow of the morning sky was reflected in its wide, fast moving waters.  A huge and pre-historic looking Great Blue Heron took off silently from the cattails at the water's edge, it's dark reflection mirroring its majestic wing-beats as it skimmed the surface of the water.   It was a long steady climb up out of the river valley on the edge of the very busy, paved highway.  Soon we found ourselves high up above the river once again, heading north through lush, green, rolling hills.  The treed river valley meandered along beside us, providing occasional glimpses of the chocolate brown waters of the river snaking along at the bottom.   As we pulled away from the river we found ourselves walking through a mix of wetlands and rolling pastures dotted with small ponds and large puddles.  There was a lot of traffic on the road, and the paved edg