Wednesday, June 9, 2010

My favorite place revisited

We went to my favorite place--Yellowstone, over the Memorial Day weekend. Even though the weather was not perfect, we had a great time. We love going this time of year because we always see a lot of newborn animals. We saw bears 12 times for a total of 15 Grizzlies and 11 Black Bears.
Even the young buffalos are cute--it must be nap time!
This Grizzly and her two cubs were at Norris Campground. The cubs have the cutest faces! They play with each other just like kids do. They were very fun to watch.
Park officials say in the history of the park this Grizzly is only the fourth sow to have 4 cubs on record. They usually give birth to just one or two. The runt is only half the sizeof the other three but it appears to be healthy.
This Black Bear had two older cubs with her. These pictures were taken about 25 feet from our van.

This cinnamon colored Black Bear had a bad left front foot. He couldn't walk on it. Poor thing.

5 comments:

Bonnie said...

These are sure good pictures!!

Bonnie said...

Answer to your riddle:
My weight :(

Cassie said...

How fun! And how cool are all those baby animals!

Cassie said...

Thanks..I really like that picture too! And the guy in the red jeep is Steve's brother Joe...His wife hates moab and wouldn't come! Sad huh!?! My dad told me about the Hardy girl..it sounds very similar to Ben's finger. I guess if that is the worse ER visit we ever have (KNOCK ON WOOD) than we will be doing pretty good and I will feel fortunate and lucky!

Cassie said...

oh ya...the corn dog picture...HE WAS FAKING ASLEEP because he didn't want to finish his corndog! little terd! we were on our way home from Moab and That's what he chose at the gas station...and then like 10 minutes after we left he changed his mind. so i was making him eat it!