The rooster squawked at 4:15 AM this day. Waking this early led to leaving at 4:50 AM with Dad, Mom, Uncle Jim + Aunt Ann, Ian, Ming, and Caitlin. We left at this time so we would arrive at Tom's place in Livingston at around 6:40 AM. We arrived in Lamar Valley at around 7:40. We arrived this early because we wanted to get to the valley at sunrise. We were tired in the morning, but it was fun. I like traveling in the dark especially early so it was cool to see the busy streets dead and the sky dark dark blue. We were traveling with Tom and 5 of his friends so we had 4 cars going into the park. We were all staying in contact through walkie talkies, 1 in each car.
Not as much wildlife in the park I would hope to see, but it was
good what we saw. We started the day with my mom spotting a wolf. My dad and I didn't see it even though we were in the same car as my mom, we went behind a hill. She put it over the talkies and Uncle Jim's car (the rest of our crew) turned around immediately and were able to catch a sighting for a couple seconds, and by the time Tom and his friends caught up it was gone, so the rest of us lucked out. Oh well.
For the rest of the wildlife during the day we saw hundreds of elk, bison, some pronghorn at the end of the day, quite a few bald eagles, and 2 otters for a couple seconds. So fun day.
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I've seen some of your photography on the Yellowstone forum. I'm no photographer but I'm impressed with your work. Love the Pronghorn and Moose stuff by the way, and so jealous you got to go there in winter. Keep up the good work.
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