Alberta Badlands

Day 10

The Alberta Badlands are quite big and after days of driving the flat prairies you come to what are also called "coulee's" meaning opposite or inverse of a hill. The land drops away into deep valley carved out by erosion and meandering rivers deep down. Dinosaor Provincial Park is a great place to tour and hike throughout this world heritage site.
Home to cotton-tail rabbits, cow birds, cougars, rattlesnakes, scorpions and black widow spiders. It would be worth spending a few days here to get the full experience, but Iam going to head up towards drumheller to see the Tyrell Museum today. Drumheller itself is nestled into the bottom of a large valley of eroded dirt. layered like chocolate cake of all shades of brown.
The town is very tourist driven but feels very much like an amusement park. First stop was the worlds largest dinosaurs. You may recognize it from the movie "wizard" starring fred savage the Nintendo wizard.



The whole town has fiberglass dinosoars everywhere and murals all over the place. The campsite i stayed in had bunnies about 100 all over the place. I'm sure a lot of people think this is cute but i would hate to see the kids face go from joy to terror when it gets run over. which i am sure is inevitable with the volume of rabbits there. I fit in a little more fantasy at the local movie house and saw Harry potter and the order of the pheonix.
Now I'm sitting at Mom's News on the corner of Centre st. and 3rd looking out over the main corner in town, old neon signs of the movie theatre and restaurant still hang and watch moterhomes and pickup drive by while kids tumble over the fiberglass tryceritops.
In a few days I will head up towards Jasper to see Becky Comber in the rockies.