Another mystery picture. Can you find the horned owl?
First bears - at the Teklaneeka rest stop.
(OK, they are a little far away but just wait.)
We drove a little further down the road for this better view. The cub is probably a two year old.
The next bear ran across the road ahead of the bus. By the time we got along side it this was the best I could do for a picture.
Ordinarily Dall sheep look like white specks on the side of a mountain to us road bound mortals, but these beauties were close enough that you can actually see that they have curled horns.
Polychrome mountain, we were told, is volcanic (dormant) which accounts for the several different colors in the rocks - iron, copper, basalt etc. The road is cut along the side of the mountain and is just wide enough for a bus to pass another bus without either bumping the upside or falling off the downside. The protocol is that the outbound bus stops as close to the mountain as possible while the inbound bus carefully passes. I'm no geologist, but the rocks on the side of this mountain gave me the feeling that they could sort of slide downward anytime without so much as a "may I". Very pretty, though.
A view of an ancient glacial valley. (Wind was blowing at about 30 knots here.)
Bear number four. I missed a closer picture because the undergrowth was so dense the autofocus was confused. This one was manually focused.
Our "school bus" at Toklat River. The river bed is about 2 miles wide but it never fills with water. Glacial streams carry a lot of silt and the channel keeps filling. When that happens the water just seeks another path and the bed gets wider.
Bears five six and seven. If we had sat there for another hour we might have gotten a closer look.
Marmots sunning themselves.
We saw a few moose on the way out but by then moose seemed a little old hat. I'm looking forward to seeing a mother moose with her twin children.
2 comments:
Quite an adventure you're having! Keep up all the great photos and I'll hope to remember your blog url after leaving BC (I'm on a working holiday right now) so I can follow you in your new job.
I've never been further than Hyder, Alaska, on the border next to Stewart, BC. But it was gorgeous on the way there, so I look forward to seeing more of your pictures. It's unlikely I'll ever get up there again, but you never know, eh?
Excellent work, excellent!
Have a nice week.
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