hey it's Shawn from Journey Alberta, right now
i'm in Dinosaur Provincial Park in the
heart of the Albertan badlands right near
the Red Deer River. I'm here with Kelsey and I
(my wife) are going to walk around here
explore some of this park today.
So we've moved into the main part of the
park now and we're doing the Badlands
hike. It's about 1.3 kilometers long. It's
rated easy so should be a nice
stroll through the Badlands here.
Something else to note about this park
and badlands areas that are sensitive in
general is that there are a bunch of
signs here explaining where you can walk
and where you can't walk because the
area is sensitive. There's dinosaur bones
that you could accidentally destroy or
break or fragile plants and this
ecosystem as well so adhere to the signs
always don't go off trail even if you
see a little path of someone else may
have made. Always stick to the main trail.
So you think with this area being called
the "badlands" that not much life would live
here and for us humans there isn't
really much here to sustain life for us
but it's actually a very bio diverse
ecosystem here you've got deer you've
got insects tons of insects you've got
a lot of birds and the rattlesnake of
course which is this time of year you're
not likely to see a rattle snake, but
moving into this later spring and summer
months definitely you can see a rattle
snake out here easily and you want to be
careful like reaching up into ledges and
stuff over top of you and stuff because
that's really like the lay so that you
don't get bit. Make sure that you're not
reaching up on the ledges and stuff where
you can't see
We are almost back at our vehicle now
after doing the Badlands hike. My
favorite part about this area is all the
unique looking rock and sand formations
because really in Alberta we have the
badlands, the prairies, the foothills,
the mountains and in the far north
the Canadian shield This is a very diverse
province in terms of what we have all
this and I think coming out here the
badlands experiencing that it's just
incredible.