We woke up a little late today. We headed out to the trails to Swan Lake and Heron Pond. These are fairly easy trails around Colter Bay and we were told to be Bear Aware. In fact, everything here says Be Bear Aware.
We attached the bear bells to the kids packs, loaded up our gear, and went out into a nice day, temperature around 60 degrees. The hike took us through some light woods, down to the edge of Swan Lake where we saw some Sandhill Cranes and a cute chipmunk. We saw some herons and ducks but no bear. As we got about halfway through our hike the skies got grayer and we heard some thunder in the distance. We put it in gear and started on our way back. It took us about an hour to get to where we were and we were making good time when the storm overtook us. It was a cold rain with some heavy gusts. Bryce and Sam were in shorts, Teresa and I were in hiking pants but we had packed rain gear for the kids. They threw their jackets on and we trotted off back to camp. It took a while with the lightning getting closer and the wind really whipping off the bay. We made it to the visitor’s center and hung out there until it died down a bit.
We hit the grocery and picked up some food and made it to the RV. While Teresa took care of the kids I did the laundry. I needed a bit of space. It has been almost two weeks in the RV and it was obvious Dad was getting a little testy.
No comments:
Post a Comment