It was then August 18. We still had two places of interest to go: Lake Medicine and Lake Maligne. Set out earlier, we arrived at Lake Medicine at about 11.
The name of Lake Medicine came from its mysterious disappearing in the winter. Indians couldn't explain and believed that must because of treatment of some "medicine". Modern research found the root cause, which were the underground river and lakes that absorbed water in the winter. We found a family of wild goats along the lakeside -- a male, two females and two lambs.
The majority of our time that day was spend in Lake Maligne. It would take 6 hours single trip from boat renting dock to the island in lake center. That was much beyond us, as we were all new to rowboating. The first two hours we advanced only 300 meters off shore. Most time our boat was just making circles. But soon we got trained, and the rest 4 hours were full of fun of oaring.
At dusk, we came back to town of Jasper. That day happened to be match day for Olympics boat racing, what a coincidence!
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