Today Charlie discovered that one of the trailer tires is
“cupping” and so decided to drive to Cut Bank (62 miles away) and buy two new
tires for the trailer. We did not want to have to worry about it as we traveled into the wilderness of Canada and Alaska. We also needed to do laundry, so we loaded it up and did it while we waited on the tires. It really didn't take very long, and we were back by 1:00. This was our view coming back.
We spent the afternoon taking care of things around the camp and calling family since we will be in Canada tomorrow and may be out of touch for a while. We had an omelet, that really turned into scrambled eggs, for dinner and then loaded up our fishing gear and off we went!
We fished in the Rising Sun Creek, which was very pretty,
but moving too fast to do much fishing.
We still stayed and fished for a while though just because it was such a nice area. We used bright pink
bait, called, “magic trout bait” and it was sort of like bubble gum. I think it surprised Charlie I knew how
to tie off a hook, but my dad has taught me well.
: )
We left the creek and moved
down to fish at a lake called, Lost Lake.
This lake has snails from a prehistoric time, and you are not allowed to get
into the water, but I am not sure who would want to, I guess maybe people who were
fly fishing? Anyway... Charlie decided to make a wildlife sweep, before we started fishing again and - Wow, were we glad we did, because as we
rounded the corner just past the lake, there in the road, walking straight
toward us was a big ole Grizzly!
It
sauntered to about 15 feet in front of the car and then veered up the
hill next to us. I have to say it was
mean looking, well, mean may be too strong, but it definitely looked like it
was saying, “don’t mess with me….” We took some good shots which I was able to post earlier with my phone...
After it walked on, we drove back down to the lake but since the Mr. GB ( Grizzly Bear) we in the know just call them GB… had been very close to the lake we were planning to fish, Charlie and I decided to leave the car unlocked in case we
needed to make a quick get away....
The lake is off the road and down a bit, so it looks like it is hidden. It is really the size of a medium pond, but it was soooo pretty. It
felt as if we had stepped back in time.
I was concerned about ticks though, so I had put my pant legs down in my
socks and sprayed myself well with bug spray…. I looked pretty funny, but as far as I can tell, the ticks left me alone.
We baited our hooks and went to fishin’. Amazingly, I caught a little Brook Trout
- it was too little to keep, but fun to catch. We only caught old fishing line and sticks after that, but it was so still and quiet, it was just
pleasant to be hanging out there. We did
keep a look out for the GB though….. but made it safely back to the car, and
since it was around 9:00 p.m. decided to make our last wildlife viewing
run.
As we rounded a curve, we ran into what we now recognize
as a “Bear jam” and looked up and there was a enormous GB. This one was much bigger than the last one,
and thankfully was up on the top of a crop of rocks and no real threat to us. It did not hang around
long, so we moved on and before the drive was done, we had seen three white
tail deer, an elk, and the two Grizzly's. We
thought it a successful night of animal watching and enjoyed the fishing, even
if we did not really catch much. (Some
of us didn’t catch anything, but I am not naming names…)
Tomorrow we head
out to Canada.
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