At 9:30 we got on a converted school bus for the Tundra Wilderness Tour. It was an all day tour travelling deep into the Denali National Park. Travel by the bus was the only way to go as the roads in the park are to narrow for a traditional bus. We hadn’t gone 2 miles into the when we saw our first moose and then in another mile saw another moose with her 2 one week old babies. (The baby moose is 45 pounds at birth and 350 pounds at a year old.). Phenomenal 8 hour day of Grizzly bears, moose, caribou, Dall sheep in the mountains, brown eagle and beautiful scenery all the way.
At one point a mother grizzly and her cub were walking down the middle of the road in front of our bus and we couldn’t get past. The mother grizzly spotted a ground squirrel and took off after it – the cub realized mom was gone and sprinted 40 yards to catch up with her.
