Day 92

Another Day At Glacier National Park

Aug 6, 2013, 12:54 PM

We are trying the road less traveled today. There may be a reason this road it less traveled, the views aren't as good and the road is worse. We were hoping to see wildlife but so far no luck. We are having a great day though. We have driven to Polebridge. Let me tell you what, there is NOTHING in Polebridge. We drove to the Polebridge Mercantile and they had baked goods, but not really lunch stuff, so we came back to Home Ranch Bottoms, another place we saw and we are having a good lunch and talking to one of the owners. Hopefully on the way back we will see some more stuff, but hell even if we don't it won't matter we are having a good time, that's what's important. 

I Saw Moose

Aug 6, 2013, 4:12 PM

Well just like the guy at Home Ranch Bottoms said, we drove to Red Meadow Lake and saw moose. We drove down a twelve mile gravel/dirt road that wasn't fit for a humvee in places. Steve says when we get home he's taking all the Hyundai stickers off the car and replacing them with JEEP cause the car has earned the right given some of the places we have taken it. We were driving down this road that was pretty much tree lined and so dense with vegetation that you couldn't see more than a foot or two off the side of the road. We passed six guys on 4-wheelers, one of the guys was standing in the brush with his back to the road, I'm sure you can guess what he was doing. We went over several small bridges when all of a sudden it opened up to a pristine lake on the right. As we were debating on whether or not to get out and walk around all of the 4-wheelers arrived. So we kept going to see what else we could find. After a short distance the road really got dicey and we were concerned we might get into a situation where we couldn't turn around and we couldn't go forward so we took advantage of a spot to turn around and go back to the pretty little lake. The lake was completely deserted when we got back to it, the 4-wheelers passed us when we were going back, so we got out to look around. There was a tent set up on the side of the lake but no one around. The lake was so crystal clear and really really cold. The guy at lunch told us the temperature of the lake is probably 42 degrees. OH MY GOSH!!!!! Well I was walking around taking pictures, and Steve was searching with the binoculars for wildlife. God love him, he wanted so much for me to see a moose or bear or something. Well I had walked pretty far up the road happily taking pictures when Steve gave a short whistle. I looked over and he was motioning across the lake. I looked through the 300mm lens and I could see it, a MOOSE!!!!!!! Oh my God, I was so excited. So I got some photos, but I was pretty far away, I could tell you it was a photo of a moose but you'd have to take my word for it that that dark spot off in the distance was really a moose. So Steve drove up to me and I hopped in the car and we tried to get a closer look. Well we sure as heck got close!!! I was just so thrilled to see a moose and he was one hell of a good looking moose too. He was big and he was just sloshing around in the water. Every once in a while I could hear running water, like maybe there was a stream nearby, then I realized it was coming off the moose. When he would lift his face out of the water he had so much water on him you could just hear it splashing. 

So now it's good, I'm happy, I've seen a moose people, a freaking moose! Life and in person not caged in a zoo, he was knee deep in the marshy grass area around this beautiful little lake doing exactly what God intended for him to do, just being a happy moose, and I was doing what God intended for me to do, get a LOAD of pictures.