The big deal at the national parks is the bears. You aren't supposed to feed them, you should buy bear spray, be cautious, don't run, make lots of noise when hiking to scare them off etc. etc. We must have followed the last instructions pretty well, because we saw almost no wildlife while we were hiking! It was a bit disappointing...
After one of our hikes we took a boat ride back to our car and someone pointed out the bear on the hill right above the lower treeline. Can you see the little black dot up there? It was a bear, but we could barely claim to have seen one...
We decided to make the best of it by enjoying the other animals we saw, like this a marmot and ground squirrel at Glacier.
A deer feeding in a meadow at Glacier.
A Mountain Goat
We saw most of the amazing wildlife right out our car window. (I guess our our noise couldn't scare them off that way.) Here are some Big Horn Sheep we saw along the road side at Yellowstone.
The elk seemed to like the watered green lawn around Fort Yellowstone...
A Pronghorn!
Elk crossing the Yellowstone River. We did get to see a little sparring between two male elk!
We saw a herd of bison grazing - and Dad and Noah decided to get dangerously close for a better photo.
Then we all saw one closer when one crossed the road in front of us, taking its own sweet time.
We never did see a bear up close in the national parks, but driving between them we noticed a bunch of cars pulled over to the side of the road. We pulled over as well and discovered it was a mama black bear with her two cubs! They were so cute!
Now at least we can say that we saw a bear...
Tour Tips from the Bisceglias #1 - To sound educated, say "bison" instead of "buffalo". We actually don't have an buffalo in America.
Tour Tips from the Bisceglias #1 - To sound educated, say "bison" instead of "buffalo". We actually don't have an buffalo in America.
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But if you want to sound redneck, use buffalo. And I think water buffalo are buffalo, I don't think they're water bison, but I could be wrng.
If you want to see bears up close, you should try Yosemite. They are usually out every night tearing into someone's unlocked bear box, or car that they left food in. Once, when I was setting up my camera to take a photo, I heard some noise in the nearby bushes, and saw this less than ten feet away!
How exciting. That is a great photo, Chris! We saw a bear on our way home from Yosemite years ago, but it wasn't at that good of a view! Our aunt in the car behind us saw it first and screamed so loudly (she was truly thrilled to see it) we could hear her even in the next vehicle. :)
~Kathrina
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