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Sunday, June 16, 2002
posted by susi 9:04 AM 
Drove the kids to Banff friday night where i got to deposit them with my parents for another whole weekend...woooooohooooo. Both kids gone for the weekend. :)) Gotta love that.
The weather has been great. Summer has finally made it. The drive up was a lot more pleasant than last weekend but no where near as much fun cause i took the truck...ugghh.
It's funny driving into the campground cause they have this sign that says WARNING: carnivores are in the area... and then pictures of wolves and cougars.. with all the dinosaur movies i've seen lately i half expected pictures of raptors... makes me feel like i've just entered a scene from Jurassic Park or the kids cartoon movie Dinosaurs where they have those carnotaur things that eat up the stragglers... lol.
Dunno about the kids... i think it's me been watching too much tv. Anyway, not sure why they have the sign up cause it's a national park in the middle of the rockie mountains... course there's carnivores up there... i suppose they've actually been spotted in the campground?
They've had to chase a lot of the elk away...cause there were just too many of them all over the campground. It's pretty kewl to see them all but it gets kinda freaky when you can't go to the bathroom cause there's 30 of 'em 2 feet from the door of your rv or worse yet your tent... lol.
People underestimate the danger of the elk... and so a few people get hurt every year walking up to them to take pics... especially when there's little ones about or they are in mating season. They've been letting off fireworks to scare them back into the bush.
Same thing happens with the bears believe it or not. Don't see too many bears these days though... not on the highway anyway. They've put up like an invisible fence along both sides of the highway all the way through the park so very few animals wander onto the road. I'm not sure if it was to protect the animals or the tourists...*g*... both no doubt.
Ten or more years ago you'd see 15 or so cars pulled over to the side of the highway... about 30 or 40 people wandering around... and a family of five standing ten feet in front of a bear eating berries at the side of the road... with someone else taking pics of them. OMG don't they read those books they give you as you drive into the park??? Don't see that anymore since they put up the fence.
Funny though... now i think of it i don't remember anyone ever getting attacked at the side of the road. It's always hikers or people tenting and usually in fairly remote locations. One thing is for sure you won't ever catch me tenting in national parks with bears and carnotaurs...i mean carnivores.
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