*Photos from the Saint Augustine Alligator Farm
A walk on the wild side
Tag: wild animals
Alpine Zone Fauna on Logan’s Pass, Glacier National Park
Logan’s Pass is one of the few places in Glacier National Park where you are nearly guaranteed to see wildlife up close and personal.
It’s one of the few trails where you can drive your car into the
alpine zone to catch the trail head, and then the shorter hike (3 miles round trip) makes the trail accessible to a wider range of visitors.
The animal photos are great because it’s such a busy, popular trail, the animals have grown accustomed to the presence of humans and don’t feel at all shy. In fact, they seldom feel compelled to move out of the way.
It kinda looks like a petting zoo.
With really steep sides.
And no fences.
In fact, we have always found ourselves sharing the trail with mountain goats, big horn sheep, and marmots for sure!
I just love taking animal photos. It’s such a treat.
Unlike a landscape that tends to stay put, your subject has free will and a mind of their own so it’s a special pleasure when you hit the shutter button and get rewarded with an extra cute animal shot.
Look maaaa…where my horns will come in!
Oversized guinea pig? No! It’s a marmot! Last year, I’d never seen one before.
Two marmots sitting on a rock, s-u-n-n-i-n-g.
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes…well, you know the rest.
They’re rodents after all.
Big horn sheep butting heads on the slope. At least I thought it was his head until I zoomed in on the photo. That’s actually one sheep head butting the other sheep’s ass.
I just report what I see. I never claimed to be an expert.
Mama goats and baby goats…
And one of the coolest photos of the trip! And officially my new header!
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That’s Mr. Fish to you
Photos: Goliath Grouper, Atlantis, Bahamas, February 2013
That’s a flipping 500 pound fish, folks.
Want to know a fun fact about grouper? They all mature as females and only some large adults become males. How the hell that goes down, I have not a clue.
Some crazy shit right there.
A Dolphin named Jessica
In the nearly two weeks since I last blogged…
We flew to the Bahamas for Super Bowl weekend and stayed at the Atlantis Resort.
While we were there, we played in the water park. We slipped down the slides. We rode inner tubes through shark tanks. We had a couples massage. We ate delicious food. We drank margaritas and piña coladas.
But most importantly, we swam with the dolphins.
In case you can’t tell from the look on my face, I’m 1. Freezing and 2. Completely in love with this dolphin.
Her name is Jessica.
It was a pretty nice way to celebrate 15 years of wedded bliss come next month.
