I left the house this morning for my walk but this critter was blocking my way.
I tried calling 'here Moosey Moosey, here Moosey Moosey' so she would come over and let me pet her.
She just ignored me and gave the look of 'I just dare you to come closer'. If she would have come closer I was only 10 feet from the garage door.
This is another moose in another neighorhood. It was a bit more timid.
Here Moosey, Moosey worked for Elder Maddox. Of course he had a carrot. This moose hangs around Richards Thomas's house. The Elders get a kick out of it. Of course they have a barrier between them.
We also have other neighbors too. Bears!!! There are alot of them around here. We are only two miles from the Kenai river so they pass through often. Last summer while building the house we are living in the owner saw a mother grizzley and two cubs in the drive way where the above top moose is standing. This house in Soldotna where this photo is taken have had a number of mother bears with cubs walk right here past their door on the way to the Kenai river just a quarter mile down the hill. We have dinner here every 3rd monday night. Neat neat people.
Yes I even walk when it is coldddddddddd.
This is the road we live on where I walk in the cold wee hours of the morning.
This is looking the opposite direction (west) of above picture where we walk. Our drive way is part way down on the left. You can see beautiful Mt. Redoubt in the back ground. It is about 60 miles across Cook Inlet. It is an active volcano. It erupted in the late 1980s.
Not only do we have to worry about the bears and the moose when we walk we have to put up with the very slick glass ice conditions every where, as you can see. We are told that in the lower 48 you walk with your head down to watch for snakes. In Alaska you walk with your head up to watch for the bears and the moose. That's hard when you have to watch where you step so you won't slip down. We wear these studded slip ons. They help a lot. They have carbide sharp studs on them. Studded tires for our car and studded shoes for our feet equals survival.
This video shows why moose are more dangerous than bears.
