Travel Blog

Well looky here...it's Monday and I'm doing a blog. Woo boy. We got up early on this our day off, and took the dogs for a walk around the campground. We just about wore them out, they aren't used to the activity. Then Phil and I decided to take a drive around the park.

But first, a couple of pics from days gone by. This one was taken right by our house when we came home one night from work:

And this one I made Phil stop for one the way to work one morning:

His antlers are still fuzzy. At least they aren't bloody and gross yet. I'll try to get pictures of that later on.

That brings us back to today. We took the loop around the park, starting on the way to Jenny Lake. We pretty much took every pulloff. This was one of the first ones we came to. I forget whose cabin this was, but he was here a long time ago, and they say his cabin was the first two-storied structure in this area.

Nowadays, it's used for park service storage, and horse grazing. We then went on to Jenny Lake, but we didn't get any exciting pictures, and I don't think you care to see any of the ones I took. Pretty boring, take my word for it. Oh, wait. I forgot that Phil took his art shot of the day there.

Then it was on to Jackson Lake Lodge, where we saw the darndest-looking bird. We actually had to backtrack and get a picture of it. I have no idea what it is.

The lodge itself was kind of a surprise for us. It was a lot more modern looking than we were expecting.

This was the back of it, and it did have a great view. And this is where the people were chasing the bear the other day. We can see why bear would like to hang out there.

After the lodge, we took a walk down around Oxbow Bend so I could check out the pelicans. One flew pretty close to us, but of course we didn't have the cameras ready when that happened. But we did almost step in some poop.

It looked pretty fresh to us, so we kept our eyes open and our hands clapping. It may be bear...we need our Who Pooped in the Park book for reference.

But I did get to watch my pelicans for awhile, and I got some decent shots.

And Oxbow Bend is just about the prettiest place in the park.

We're going to take our kayak out there sometime soon, and paddle among the pelicans, and hopefully some otters and beavers too.

That's about it for this week. All is well in Wyoming, and we hope it's the same with you.