Tuesday, August 11, 2009

1 Bear, 2 Bear, 3 Bears, oh my!!

When we were in Yellowstone we really wanted to see a bear. Our original plan was to just take the southern loop through the park, since we had only planned one day in yellowstone, but while we were at the old faithful visitor's center we were talking to a guy that takes pictures of Yellowstone, where the best place to see bears were and he said the northern loop. Well that did it, we wanted to see a bear so we changed our plans and decided to take the northern loop also. We were so happy when right into the northern loop we saw a bunch of people pulled over and got out to see what they were looking at and it was a bear. It was very far away and only could be seen with binoculars, but it was still a bear and we felt so lucky. Later on around the loop we went into see the petrified tree and there were tons of people hanging around and a forest ranger came up to us and told us there was a black bear sleeping under a tree. It was far away, but we could see it with our eyes, even though it was better through a scope. We thought we were so lucky, we had now seen 2 bears. Well a little farther down the and around the loop we were just driving and right off the side of the road was a grizzly. It was so close, there was a park ranger there and would not even let you stop, you just had to pause and then keep driving. We all saw this one, even Sawyer, it was so cool. Not only did we get to see a bear, but we saw three bears and they were all on the northern loop. So thank you to that guy for the tip. We saw a lot fo wildlife in Yellowstone, coyote, elk, deer, moose, fox, bear, snake, and lots and lots of buffalo.



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