The animals, food, and red bus, 6/17-21/11

It was fun seeing these animals.  

This one was right outside of our red bus.  We made sure we kept the windows up.  As much as I wish this bear was a grizzly, my sister reminded me that it does not have the distinctive hump on its shoulder (because they dig a lot) therefore it is a black bear.  Each night at Glacier Park Lodge, a park Ranger would inform us about the different animals.  They said that black bears are also brown in color.

We got to go where these bisons hang out.

 This long horn sheep was cool.

 I think these are also long horn sheep, please correct me if I am wrong.

We certainly had great meals.

 At Luna's, they had the best huckleberry pie.

Part of Glacier National Park is in Alberta, Canada- overlooking Upper Waterton Lake.  Therefore having a passport was a must.

 I had Shepherd's pie.

Our waitress wearing a Welsh Tartan

The "Red Bus" is a 17 passenger convertible. The White Motor Company built these vehicles between 1936 and 1939.

We really liked this driver, he had so much info and had so much enthusiasm.  He is also known as a "Jammer" meaning he drove the red bus when it was a stick shift.  He wears a cap where as the other driver in my West Glacier shows a driver with a hat.  The red bus' were refurbished by Ford @2005.

Richard in the backseat trying to get shots of a waterfall.

Thanks Richard.

Full Moon, 7/14/11

EOH, a photography club, I belong to had fun taking pictures of the moon from a friend's roof.  Anyone who know me, knows I can't just leave my camera alone - so while waiting for the moon - here are some shots using my zoom and shooting down at some plants.  I encouraged a fellow photographer to do the same.  

I had to try my hand at taking the same picture that Luther took. We could no longer get the moon and the moon light on the water in the same picture.

West Glacier National Park, Montana, 6/14-17/11

Richard and I were dropped off at the Amtrak station by bus.  Huh?  Due to a landslide with boulders on the track - our train ride from Spokane, Washington became a 6 hour bus ride a little longer than a train ride.  We left as scheduled, 1:30 am.  Main thing, we got here safely.

In the Amtrak station, I quickly noticed Ansel Adams book, Our National Parks.  A must have book - I was so happy to get it.  Ansel Adams is famous for his capture of light  - google him

Voila our transportation to where we would be staying.  I will post more about this "red bus" in my East Glacier blog.

We stayed at The Village Inn which was on the waterfront of Lake McDonald.

What a view!!!

 Food was good at Eddie's

 as well as Huckleberry ice cream.

Notice how happy these 2 girls are.  Due to no shuttle until, July 1 - we rented a car and were able to drive them to East Glacier.  The night before they were frozen in their little tent while it rained in "Avalanche". They are from Switzerland and we had seen them on the bus and then at Eddies.

 While at East Glacier, we had lunch here.

The temperature here was much warmer than West Glacier.

I don't think water rafting was going to happen.  The glaciers have provided a lot of gushing water.

Got some gifts here.

West Glacier was beautiful but wet and cold.  This is at Lake McDonald Lodge.

A link to Wikipedia: Glacier National Park 

Fish Auction, 7/9/11

How early do you have to be at a fish auction?  Yes, 5:30 am - and we had 2 members of our HPS show up - who normally don't like being up that early especially on a Saturday morning.  It was fun and cold, very cold.  

This is Opah.