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Category Archives: wildlife
I saw my first rattlesnake ever today. I almost smooshed it with my car. It is probably a good thing that I know what they look like now. When I was five, my family and I camped just a few feet from a rattlesnake pit in the Badlands. Of course, we arrived at night and...
As I mentioned in the previous post, I took Friday off work to show Micah around Zion. Spent Thursday night camped out at some sort of hippie commune ranch thing. Woke up and hung around with hippie commune kitty. Micah chillaxed on a hammock. We visited the ghost town Grafton, got breakfast (not in Grafton),...
This weekend, Miss Molly (henceforth referred to as Bitter Princess of the Forest) and I voyaged to the remote northwestern Kolob Canyons area of Zion. Originally planned as a long 14-mile day hike to the Kolob Arch, we instead opted to turn it into an overnight backpack to help us prep for our 40-mile backpack...
This is Fat Bastard. He is fat, and he’s a bastard. Some idiot family took him from the wild and kept him as a pet (until the DWR confiscated him) in an itty bitty cage and fed him grilled cheese sandwiches, egg McMuffins, and candy bars. No wonder the little bastard is so fat! And...
On Saturday morning, I got to cover my first release – a bobcat release. Her name is Sophie and she had been at Best Friends since she was just an itty bitty baby. She was trapped at the bottom of a slot canyon when she was just a few pounds and was rescued by canyoneers...
You heard right. While giving them their much-adored belly rubs, to their enjoyment I also rubbed their armpits… only to later find out those are actually their breasts. Yes, I rubbed manatee boobs. After taking a forty-minute boat ride in 50-degree weather, I hopped in the river (wearing a wetsuit of course), and proceeded to...
Florida… I dig it. And yes, I swam with manatees. They like belly rubs. It was life-changing.
