Now, on Sunday of the Labor Day long weekend, we would pack up and head back up the Alaska Highway to the campsite at the Liard Hot Springs…
hadn’t gone very far up the highway when we encountered this herd of Wood Bison….
so might as well take some time and look at Wood Bison pictures…
why did the bison cross the road? To tie up traffic would be my guess!
they learn young…
more of them out this window as well…
kind of cute in a homely way…
and this would be the best ‘head shot’ I’d get – look at all the burrs and bits in the fur….needs a good grooming!
proceeded on to the campground, and true to his word, the park host had saved us a spot. It was even a fairly private spot in this rather packed campground. By now the weather had cleared so we set off for a walk along the boardwalk to the actual hot springs…this is along the way…
there were a family of Mallards paddling around in the warm water….
closer look at one of them and the ‘muck’ they were feeding in….
this spot is a bit ‘off trail’ and behind where the actual hot springs are located…
the boardwalk now ends at the hanging gardens – not looking terribly ‘garden like’ this time of the year. You used to be able to walk to the upper springs, but that has now been completely blocked off due to a very rare endangered snail that lives in those springs…
here is some of the vegetation along the board walk…
and a small corner of the hot springs themselves…I really didn’t want a picture of all the occupants of the springs…
Later, Ernie went back to indulge in a soak in the springs…and found that the signs warning ‘Bear in area’ are there for a reason as this guy was walking along not far from the board walk….
later in the afternoon, either the same, or another bear was in the campground – see it up that tree?
I like to call this picture ‘like father, like daughter’ – what were they staring at?
the bear of course!!
That would pretty much be it for our stay at Laird Hot Springs. The next day we’d be heading to a spot I wanted to stay at….
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