We saw lots of animals on this trip. One day we saw about 20 ewes
and lambs with one big-horn ram. They were standing in the road, but we didn’t
get a picture. I didn’t realize that whenever people saw an animal, they just
stopped and took pictures. Some people even got out of their vehicles, but we
never did that. Later we got several pix of bison, black bears, brown bears, moose,
caribou, elk, deer,and horses. The horses were running wild, but I don’t know
if they are considered wild. One of them had a cow bell around its neck. There
are “Horse-Crossing” signs just like there are bison and moose signs. (Seeing
the horse with the cow bell reminded me of the SNL skit with Christoper Walken
and Will Ferrell, and Walken keeps asking Ferrell for more cow bell.)
In Denali NP, a female moose wandered by the train station
and came up to where we were waiting for a shuttle bus. Everyone retreated, but
the moose didn’t seem to notice us. She looked really old, had a lot of graying
in her fur, and looked a little out of it. I could identify with her. My camera battery had died just before she came along.
In Tennessee we have dead opossums on the side of the road.
In other areas, the dead animals were raccoons and porcupines.
We were doing laundry in a Beaver Creek, Yukon Territory, campground
store / laundromat / restaurant / gift shop and talking with the locals. They
mentioned that the birds had arrived, but it was too cold for the bugs to be out
– and the birds were starving. Nature is harsh.
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| The red spot is a baby bison. |
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| Moose are frequently in water. |
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| A black bear. |
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| A brown (grizzly) bear. |
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| Deer or elk (or something else -- I don't know). |
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| The usual and a wooden animal crossing sign. Sometimes they had flashing lights outlining the wooden sign. |
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| Elk in the road. |
Love to all,
Charlotte
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