Guess what...we were lucky enough to see moose on our drive out of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Two bull moose were in a small patch of meadow right along the road. "MOOOSE" was yelled pretty loud as we whizzed by them. Of course we turned the car back and pulled out the cameras. Lots and lots of video was shot...really cool to watch these guys in a natural environment totally oblivious to our presence.
As luck would have it we had them all to ourselves for about 15 minutes...until a Wyoming truck pulled over too. It was nice not to have the crowds that seem to show up in the National Parks. The two moose were so distracted trying to get the velvet off their antlers that they ignored us. We were lucky to capture them in 'battle' pushing into each other using their antlers. As we watched the smaller one decided things were getting too rough and he turned and ran. Cooper finally decided he should watch too since we seemed so interested in what was going on outside the car.
Each one tried various ways to get that
darn velvet off...it was not a pretty sight. The velvet hanging down over the eyes of the smaller one really seemed to bother him as he kept rubbing bushes and trees. The larger moose was in the same shape trying to get the velvet off any way he could. We watched these two for 45 minutes or so before we reluctantly headed to Laramie...for breakfast and a resupply of Moose Drool.
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