Riverside Delights

April took the children for a hike along the Logan Riverside Trail in the canyon yesterday. The sun was shining, birds were singing, and snakes were slithering.

Dallin fell asleep shortly after we started. Erin threw plenty of rocks into the river at numerous places along the trail.

April played around with the macro function on our camera.

There was some type of fungus (?) on these chokecherry leaves.
Are there any plant pathologists out there who can help us identify this?

Then she played with the zoom function too, and took this shot of Wind Cave
on the opposite side of the canyon.

Ian gave his mother fits running up, down, and all around, usually standing too close
to the steep areas. Fortunately he didn't slip and fall off any ledges.

We were all on the lookout for snakes. Ian found the first one, a garter snake. Then April found a yellow-bellied racer, then Ian found another racer, and Megan caught it with her expert snake-catching techniques. You all should see this girl in action. She makes her mom proud! Megan held onto it even though it kept biting her. We saw one more garter snake by the water but it was too quick for us.

Here is a close up of the feisty serpent.

As we were hiking back to the parking area, Ian was in the lead. He suddenly yelled, "Look!" and a young moose that was standing on the trail took off running. The moose hadn't been there too long because a couple of fishermen had passed us not 5 minutes prior to our moose sighting.

We were pretty pumped up after seeing the moose! When we returned, we visited the waterfall area. Then the children took off their shoes and waded in the water to cool off before heading home.

We were surprised to see it was already 6:00 when we got in the car! What a fun afternoon we'd had (while poor Kevin was working hard sitting in an office writing a certain document that needs to be completed).