Final day in Yellowstone

I am writing this after a break of almost eight months. In between I changed my job. Other than that excuse, I became lazy for a while. It takes sometime to break the moment of inertia.

Anyway, the final day in Yellowstone was most entertaining. We drove to Grand Teton National Park. It is a less visited park so at times provides more opportunity to encounter wild animals. One of the park ranger suggested that we come back after seven in the evening for animal encounter. Would it not be exciting to see a mama grizzly bear with babies up close? We saw one in Yellowstone but at a distance. We had to use binoculars to get a good glimpse. So kids wanted to linger around. We were amazed to see how they could overcome their tiredness and remain energetic. We drove thousand mile to come to Yellowstone from Bay Area. Everyday inside the park we drove anywhere between 150-200 miles and walked to go on trails. Always kids gave us the enthusiasm.

Since we were leaving next day, we decided to leave for West Yellowstone in the late afternoon. Now kids tell me that we took the right decision otherwise we would not have the chance encounter. I will not describe what we saw on our way back. Video is here for the readers to enjoy - specially for animal lovers like us. I posted the same in my Facebook page.Later my elder daughter came up with a nice fictional story as we headed for our hotel.



There was a mama bear who used to live by the side of the busy highway connecting Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park. She had a baby. She was worried about her baby crossing the road. She taught her baby to look at both sides of the road and to start walking only when motorists came to a stop. One day she wanted to put her beloved baby to ultimate test. She crossed the street, intentionally leaving behind her cub. Standing behind the thicket, she started observing her cub. Her heart was pounding in fear - in case anything happened to her cub. The video contains what happened next....The cub waited patiently by the side of the road several minutes. We noticed the cub and came to a stop. The cub looked at the other side. When everything came to a stand still the cub decided to hop across the street.