Sunday, September 7, 2014
With a blue sky and the sun shining, it rained off and on all morning. What strange weather it was. Because of the unpredictability of the weather, I stayed in and quilted while Ted walked the shore a bit and then came in and watched movies with me. Nothing else to report.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Late morning we drove up to Colter Bay to kayak. There were two women launching kayaks at the boat ramp when we arrived there. When I replied that I was from Maine, one of the women said she grew up in Lewiston-Auburn and of course knew where Wiscasset was. We practiced our Maine accents and her French from the mills of Lewiston before heading out. They were both loading wheels on their kayaks for the portage that we knew nothing about mentioning that you could do it from Half Moon Bay.
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| Starting out from the Boat Launch at Colter Bay |
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| Shorelines are Longer and Flatter Here |
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| More Northern Angle on Mt Moran's 5 Glaciers |
Colter Bay is fairly wide and opens up to a great view of the Tetons, especially another angle of Mount Moran. We were able to see all five of its glaciers at once as we paddled out into the open water of Jackson Lake. There are quite a few islands in this area and we paddled around a few. It was mostly calm water with the only waves coming from boats passing by and luckily, few of them.
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| 6 Mergansers |
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| Scattered Larger Rocks |
Where there were deciduous trees, they were turning yellow. There were geese along the shore in groups getting ready for their long migrations we suspect. We also saw another young bald eagle which may even be the same one we saw on Saturday as we were less than three miles from where we saw the other one as the eagle flies. We saw lots of other little birds but no large animals. When we found the portage on Half Moon Bay, there were bison and elk prints in the mud but that was the best we could do for animal sighting.
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| A New Favorite Island |
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| Just One View to Gain Favorite Status |
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| Another Young Bald Eagle |
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| Sheila Got Very Close to the Geese |
With the Tetons always in view, it was a wonderful and beautiful paddle. As much as we sometimes miss the ocean, it is hard to beat the mountain lakes of the Rockies that we have paddled this summer. The one thing that we did see on our way back to Signal Mountain Campground that made us think of Maine was a clump of trees that were orange and red. There is nothing like fall in Maine and we got a little nostalgic peak of what we are missing.
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