Tuesday, July 01, 2008

We left at 10 am (GA Time... 8 am MT). We thought we would miss a lot of the heavy traffic, but it was heavy most of the way through the park. A mule deer crossed in front of us as we pulled out from the campground


(Big Grin) We saw a Grizzly Bear! It was from a good distance... too far for our camera lenses, but we got it on video and you can tell it is a Grizzly Bear. We got a good look through the lookers (binoculars) at him. He looked right at us a few times. We wondered if he could see us at that distance... probably a half mile. He was crossing Alum Creek and then he seem to play in the water along the edge... jumping and splashing. Of course he could have been fishing. He was beautiful to watch.


We never got a good picture of the white pelicans with our cameras... other than the video. Frank took some more video of one before we left the area where the bear was.


The traffic was slow going out of the park... we looked at some of the video a while ago and it looked like we were going fast. We got slowed down by one bison walking right next to the truck. Then later there were three bison walking in the other lane of traffic... the one taking up the rear looked to be younger than the other two... it was smaller in size. The leader looked like it might charge us.


Then there were elk in a meadow that had traffic slowed. Then traffic got thicker and thicker as we neared the west entrance of the park. The oncoming traffic was at a stand still for a bit... nothing more than a curve slowed the traffic for them.


We arrived at Aspen RV Park... and golf course at 1:15pm (GA Time 11:15 am MT). The campground is a bit off highway 20. We passed a few farms. We were beginning to think that we would reach the mountains before we reached the campground. We drove through the golf course to get to camp site #29. Two men directed Frank into the site... I never could have directed him.


There are aspen trees all around us... and lots of BIG mosquitoes. All these trees around us and we aren't very shaded... there just aren't any sprawling limbs on the trees.


We took a walk in the evening on the edge of the golf course. We stopped at one of the campsites and took pictures of swallowtails on a flower... of course the wind was blowing about 30 mph. I managed to get a couple of shots that weren't too bad. We took pictures of an old building in a field with the Teton Mts. in the background. The mountains were a little hazy though. It was a nice walk.


We traveled 132 miles today.

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