Off to Nanton this morning where we had three major stops.
Our first stop was at the Museum of Miniatures. A fascinating journey into the world of miniatures. The owner and the man who built the displays came by and gave us several stories regarding the displays as well as telling us about the legend of Chief Mountain which ended with an Indian woman throwing herself and her baby off the mountain when her husband was killed. There was a rock formation on the mountain that looked like a woman holding a baby. That rock formation collapsed in 1992 but photos can be seen that sure look like that woman and baby!
One interesting fact was that the tall grass clumps of grass in the exhibits were created with human hair!
From there we went to the Bomber Command Museum of Canada, an incredible display of WW II information along with a hangar of vintage planes, the most significant being the Lancaster. With a group of volunteers this Lancaster was physically dragged 30 miles through fields to its new home in Nanton where it was restored and a museum began. Other vintage planes are also being restored there and one of the employees took us back into the work area which the public doesn't get to see to show us the Mosquito (a wooden plane of WW II vintage) which is being restored. What a rare treat!
We were amazed at this museum - what a treasure!
Next we visited the Big Sky Garden Railway which is a miniature railroad display. What a hoot! The more you looked around, the more details you picked up and model trains of every description were moving around everywhere.
We took a drive to Okotoks where we were able to walk around the Okotoks Erratic, a 16,500 ton boulder created by a glacier melt more than 10,000 years ago.
Our last stop of the day was at St. James Catholic Church in Okotoks, a landmark that can be seen for miles. This is unlike any Catholic Church I've ever seen. Beautiful!
Very cool to see another Mosquito being restored. I saw one in Victoria being restored to flying condition. There are only two in the world that fly - the other is in New Zealand. I had the thrill to see "my" Mossie in flight at the airshow this summer in Abbotsford.
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