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Friday 5 August 2016

Day 35-Great Falls-5 Aug

Great Falls has hydro electricity that required 5 dams along the Missouri River and consumed most of the falls along the river. One remaining is The Rainbow Falls: 

Lewis and Clark Interpretative Centre: 
Where two national parks rangers Darian and Melissa showed us how to load and shoot a musket: 

And showed us how to start a fire from Flint and steel and from two pieces of wood: 
Giant Springs - the worlds largest freshwater Spring which discharges 6.9 million m3 of water a second! Into the worlds shortest river - the Row River:



Head Smashed Buffalo Jump a world heritage historical site. Where Indians used to chase Bison over the cliff. They did this for 5,700 years in this same place, even before they had horses. 
This is a replica of their tepees they camped in while they butchered their kill: 
The plains below the cliffs: 
The cliffs:
More cliffs: 

Dropped the others at Regency Suites Hitel in Calgary city centre and dropped the car at the airport. Caught the shuttle bus Bach - door to door. Researched some restaurants and chose Mint Leaf Vietnamese and who should we find already eating there? Sandra and Paul! What a coincidence. Very nice meal.