Travel Blog

Last day off, Phil and I went to Colter Bay (about 30 miles from where I work) to take a hike. I picked this particular place and hike because we are out of shape and the booklet said this was an easy 3-mile hike around marshes and ponds, where we could maybe see some cool birds and maybe a beaver or two. Colter Bay is quite lovely, and we had a good time. The only problem was I listened to Phil and instead of doing the 3-mile loop, we ended up hiking about 9 miles all said and done. But it was a nice day (it started raining only when we were safely back in the truck) and the hiking was non strenuous. The only oopsy all day was when we were passing another hiker and he told us to be careful because he heard some crashing sounds in the woods, and whatever was making the noise sounded fairly large. We said, "No problem, we have our bear spray." We looked down to Phil's beltloop, which happened to be bear-spray-less. We dropped it somewhere and didn't even notice. I'm thinking the bear sneaked up behind Phil at some point and picked his pocket, but that's only a theory.

We didn't get to see any beavers (or bears) that day, but we saw a big white bird, a weird blue bird, lots of dragonflies, and a butterfly. We thought that was a pretty good wildlife tally.

In other news, we've been running into moose everywhere. Most of them are right in our own backyard. This cutie was just standing outside our back window the other morning, but when she heard me coming with the camera, she decided to moosy away. Ha ha. She stopped for a bit to play with the clothesline though.

And then she scared the heck out of our neighbor who was just coming around his RV to get into his van when I took this picture.

Then on our way home that evening, Phil said to pull over, pull over, so I did a u-ey and we got to see two bull moose in the bushes, just munching and hanging out.

And then just this morning, Phil comes and wakes me up asking if I wanted to see a girl and boy moose right outside our neighbor's rig. I'll get up for some moose any day.

We enjoyed their company until the construction crew started working and scared them off.

That's about all that's going on here for now. We're doing our town stuff today (shopping, blogging, sending out resumes, etc) and we're going to have our active day tomorrow. We're hoping to get our dollar rafting trip still. They were all full up last week. But as the season winds up, we think we should have a good chance soon.