Posts under ‘animals’

Whoops, I forgot about this one…we finally saw a bald eagle (not at any eagle sanctuary) on our way to Neah Bay, Washington. While in Yellowstone we were lucky enough to see some bison. At first they were all really far but just as we were leaving the park there were two right by the [...]

So, one of the things that our friend Cody was telling us about was that in Idaho there is something called The Trailing of the Sheep Parade. This is a parade where they close down the roads to herd sheep through town. It is a historic parade honoring the migration to winter pastures. We just [...]

Have you ever read the Dr. Seuss book called The Lorax? If you haven’t, it is certainly one to check out. It is a book that highlights the importance of saving our Earth’s precious natural resources and nothing has reminded me more of the lessons in this book like the clear cuts I have seen [...]

Someone once asked me if I had the choice of living on a lake, river, or ocean which would I pick. While ocean seems like the exotic, all time winner, I picked lake and still would today. I love the stillness and silence of a lake and how it allows you to open your senses [...]

Astoria was our last stop along the Oregon coast before we headed into Portland. A couple days before a surfer told us about this place to surf close to a jetty in Astoria. We decided to check it out before heading inland. When we got there to take a look around there were hundreds of [...]

We were almost back to The Bivy around dusk after a long day of climbing and I was already feeling a little on edge because early on in our hike back we were forced off the trail due to an angry rattlesnake. When Ben suddenly put out his hand to stop me from going any [...]

Ben and I were reaching the end of our time in California. We stopped at what ended up being our last California beach and it was by far the most beautiful, living beach I have ever been to! When we got there the tide was low and the waves looked good from the high cliff [...]

While we were in the Monterey area we learned about and saw some really fun animals and we also saw some animals doing really funny things. One thing we saw a lot of were sea lions. We learned from Katy that sea lions are different from seals in both looks and personality. Sea lions have [...]

After leaving the Hearst Castle I was really feeling good but also a little greedy because while we were driving away I said to Ben, “You know that was beautiful but what would really make this day great would be to see seals. And not just seals swimming, I want to see seals on the [...]

We had just spent a week in the woods and were ready for a little ocean action. We ended up finding a campsite before making it to the beach. It was the last site in the campground and smelled just like the outhouse that it was located next to (not such a score but we [...]