I was awake at 6:30 this morning. For anyone that knows me, that is “roll over and go back to sleep” time. I am not a morning person. But, I had the thought that if I wanted to see animals, this might be a good time to get out of bed. I peered out the window and instantly saw 4 moose on the other side of the lake. They were standing in chest deep water just munching on water plants.
One of the smaller moose started running (swimming fast?) creating a small white v of water around it as it picked up speed. The moose behind him suddenly perked it’s head up and watched this with great interest. I assumed this was the mother, thinking “Oh dear god, why is he running, where is he going now?” He just kept going so soon the mother was running after him to close the gap between them. They created ripples on the lake. It wasn’t so much a wave or a change in the lake’s surface. I was more like a subtle color change just below the lake’s surface. The color change radiated out from them and swept across the lake toward me in the low morning light.
After they got closer to the other two moose, they slowed down. But, wait, now I only see 3 moose. Where did the fourth one go? The trees come right down to the edge of the lake. There doesn’t appear to be a shore. The trees appear to be growing in the water and then continue up the hillside densely packed in. It doesn’t look like anyone could walk in between the trees especially something as large as a moose. But, he was gone. I watched as one of the other moose walked closer to the trees. In front of my eyes, his front legs and head went invisible. Then the rest of him flickered out as well. I strained to see if what I thought was a tree was indeed a moose leg. No, just trees.
I was so enthralled watching the moose disappear that I never saw the third moose go invisible, but he was now gone. Only one moose remained. Right on cue, he flickered and disappeared as well.
What a show! I went back in my room for coffee. After pouring a cup of coffee, I looked out the window and saw something else thrashing about in the water. Ooooohhhh, maybe this was a bear swimming in the water? I rushed outside again. It was hard to tell what it was. I used my phone zoom to help me see, but that wasn’t helpful either. The zoom just made it closer, but blurrier. I know bear eat fish out of rivers. Do they catch fish in lakes? It looked like a bear with a fish in it’s mouth. Does it count as having seen a bear if you can’t actually identify it as a bear? Then I think, if that looked like a fish when I can’t tell if it’s being held by a bear, then that would be the largest lake fish known to man. My mind is playing tricks on me. After watching it some more, I think it was a moose swimming in deeper water. As it swam closer to the invisibility trees, it of course, disappeared.
I went in and out of the room several times to warm up. Each time I would look at the lake, the moose would be in a different location. Sometimes there was just one, other times two. Sometime it would look like a log, other times a moose. The two white swans were still on the lake, but very calm this morning – nothing to honk about this morning. Quite a few other water birds were floating about.
Yes, the pictures are blurry. I have just my phone with me. The moose were way over there. That is often the case with moose. They are usually way over there. This is both good and not. It is good because way over there is safer for me. But, that means you get blurry pictures.
Rraine Drops 