Elk Island Colter Bay Breakfast Cruise
We were able to see a waterfall and get a closer view of the snowy peaks and glaciers through our binoculars. This ride was one that epitomized everything that is wrong with “kids these days”. Just kidding, there is nothing wrong with them, only they have the luxury of not yet feeling the effects of age and time and therefore don’t feel the need to soak up all views and experiences. Joe snapped a picture of them with their heads huddled town over a screen with the grandiose mountains out the window. We were soaking up the view, they were looking at a screen. Let’s be real though, sometimes letting the kids veg out on devices saves everyone’s sanity. Later on the trip, the day of the drive through Lamar Valley and the chuckwagon ride, we banned the Kindles.
My only disappointment this far into the trip was the lack of wildlife sitings. We drove through Moose, and I didn’t see a single moose. We were on Elk Island, and the only elk we saw was a headless carcass of an elk that had died of natural causes one year prior. The poor beast was headless with the hips down separated from the ribs and vertebrate up, because when the cruise folks notified the Park Service that there was a dead elk, they came and took to head off to stuff and hang in a museum. The gentleman telling me the story regretted that they reported it because a full skeleton would have been quite a draw for the tourists. This was just outside the $80,000 ecologically friendly pit-toilets, and he’s right. A complete elk skeleton would have absolutely completed the trip. Dee Dee said that later a woman on the cruise said, “Oh yeah, I spotted an Elk on the shore…” AND SHE DIDN’T BOTHER TO TELL US. Who does that?
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Melodi Cochran
Hello! Where do you catch the boat out of
Paige Puckett
It was through Grand Teton Lodge Company, and we launched from Colter Bay Village.