Day 3 of Squires Road Trip 2010

Today we woke up to more rain, but it wasn't coming down really hard. We packed all our things up and headed up to Moose Junction to meet our river guide. We had to wait a little bit because we arrived early. As soon as they arrived we loaded up into the van and headed up to the unloading zone. On our raft we had one couple with us, so it was kind of like a private tour. It was raining the whole trip but it was just a drizzle, so it didn't ruin the trip. We saw five Bald Eagles, a moose, and all kinds of other birds. Too many to list. The Snake river is running really high right now so the flow is pretty fast. You could hear the rocks rolling down the river. At one point on our 10 mile 2 hour trip our guide could not avoid our raft going close to a tree in the middle of the river, so Shaelyn and I were knocked into the raft by a tree. It was awesome! All of the wildlife and scenery that we saw made it an awesome river trip.

After the river trip we went over to the Visitor Center and looked around. The kids enjoyed this place a lot. They went around and identified all the animals you can see in the park. They also were allowed to pick up sheds from some of the animals, of course they put them on their heads and acted like the animals. We then went and drove around the park. Below you will see a picture of us at Jenny Lake we ate lunch by here. The clouds up against the mountain and on top of the lake made it very pretty.

After we went and checked into our tent cabin we went for another ride to see if we could find more wildlife. We were very successful. We saw a ton of Elk with some very big racks. We also saw another Moose. At the end of our drive we went to a spot our river guide told us about. At this spot we saw two beaver dams and two beaver lodges. Just when we thought that we were not going to be able to see the animal that we went to see, we got lucky on our walk back up to get a glimpse of a beaver. He was so fast though we were unable to take a picture of him.

On our adventure I was a little evil. As we were traveling down one of the side roads we were crossing paths will a very small vehicle right by a huge puddle, so I romped on the gas and hit the puddle with some pretty good force and made the water go over the vehicle. Lucky for me they did not turn around and chew me out. Everyone in my Explorer thought it was very entertaining and funny.

Below is a picture I should have posted on Day 2.