A good day

The Woman had been complaining a lot. We’ve been in this beautiful country for several weeks now. We’ve seen all the warning sings on the highway that we might be encountering all forms of wildlife on the highway for the next X kilometers. But we have yet to see anything resembling a mammal anyway near our route – until today!

We ended up having a very good day. We headed out of Quesnel toward Barkerville. Barkerville was one of the richest of the gold areas discovered during the 1880’s Cariboo Gold Rush. We were pleased that in addition to the dear we spotted earlier, that we spotted this mommy Moose along the side of the road. A twofer is good, right?

Then when we were on the road the Woman said “Look at the coyote.” Well, I looked, but it wasn’t no coyote. The Woman said maybe it was a dog. It wasn’t no dog. I told the Woman that it was a Fox. I learned later that Red Fox are common in this area. So, a threefer – we hadn’t seen any wildlife other than Marmots in Canada so far, and we get a hit on three. Good day!

And then out of nowhere we hit the biggie. We had wanted to see a bear and had been in all kinds of areas that had bear resistant trash receptacles, but no bear spotting occurred. So, we kinda thought we would have to wait until Alaska to see a bear. Well, no waiting needed. We saw this guy roaming the side of the road, and darn proud of it. Having logged a fourfer, we were quite content for our day.

Talk to you soon!