Drumheller, land of the dinosaurs

Last week we made the trip down south to the Canadian badlands, the uncrowned capital of which being Drumheller.  We took the big baby van and a tent and drove the 300 odd kms to our hot and muggy destination. 

The first night as I was putting up the tent it became clear that:
1: There were a plethora of Mosquitoes in the area, big ones.
2: Our mosquito repellent didn't.
3: They really like me.

So after the tent was erected I reviewed my battle damage and it was pretty nasty.  These flying buggers also stopped us eating outside, going for walks and generally enjoying our first night in the wilds.  However thanks to Jacqui's resolve we did stay the night and looked forward to exploring the following day.  The next morning came and neither of us had a good nights sleep so we decided to look around during the day then drive back that night, one day early but we had reached our limits for this trip.

We showered and wandered into town for a perfectly good breakfast.  First thing after brekkie we made the obligatory visit to the dinosaur.  You can make out Jacqui and Dan if you zoom in on the mouth.

 then headed a bit more south to see the suspension bridge and then the hoodoos.

We took some more pictures of the rest of the trip but they're not too interesting so I'll just write it up.  We made the trip to see Wayne, this is a three mile trip along a windy road on which you cross eleven bridges, quite interesting.  Then along the Southern Dinosaur trail and I'll continue this in the next post.