Saturday, November 14, 2015

September 17, Canada, Day 16 What the heck is a Hoodoo?


When I started writing about this day, I said it was a long, busy day with lots happening. We're almost at the end but we have one last stop - to visit the Hoodoos.


Hoodoos like these along the Bow River in Banff National Park are formed when wind and water erode away softer layers of rock leaving pillars of harder rock to erode later into fantastical shapes.  Nobody knows exactly where the name "hoodoo" came from but these formations have lingered in people's imaginations for thousand of years. For example, I think this one looks like a family of beavers. What do you think?



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