Top Ten Day!

Yesterday we drove for 4 hours in the rain and barely saw anything out the car window. We made up for that today!

COVID 19 has changed many things. In Denali they have only one guided bus tour into the park. It goes into the park 54 miles and lasts 7-8 hours. It made our decision easy, no need to research what we’d see on all the different tours.

We boarded the bus for the Tundra tour at 8:30. It was a picture perfect day! I talked about wanting to see the Big 5. The day delivered – big time. We saw grizzly bears – at least 5 different ones.

Papa Minky was eating right out the window on the side of the road. We could hear him breathing!

Mom was not too far away from this 2 year old cub. They usually leave the mom during their 4th or 5th summer.

We saw a bunch of Dall Sheep. Usually they’re just white dandruff up high on the mountains but in the spring they come further down. These we saw right outside the window. It pays to do a little research and find out the left side of the bus is the place to be.

This moose was the closest one we saw. We saw another one that the driver thought was trying to find a place to give birth. He was a little judgey with her choice. He thought she could’ve found a better neighborhood. Apparently there’s a lot of grizzly bears in the area.

Our first ever sighting of a caribou. This time of year they have velvet on their antlers. We saw a lot of these today!

This is the BIG ONE! Denali in all it’s glory. They say you only have a 30% chance of seeing it. We saw it at every viewpoint – all day long.

Like I said, it was a Top 10 Day.