Once in awhile-now and again-this is us

when we got back to camp last night, there was mama deer again and this time bambi was with her.

this morning we saw a bear. right near our camp. how exciting. a mama with her two cubs. and of all times the camera messed up. i had just taken the deer pictures the night before. but i picked up the camera to take a picture and it was nothing but a blur.

i tried a few  things  and  took  another picture.

the settings on this camera do different things than they did on my sony. but it broke before we left and it was going to be $250 to fix it. we could almost buy a new camera for that. i was telling kara my story and she said “i have a point and shoot nikon i don’t like and you can have it”.  she didn’t like that it didn’t have a view finder.

thank you so much kara. this is a nice camera.

but i’m still getting used to it.

i tried again.

dammit! what setting is it going to take to get a picture. here you can see the mama has a collar on. that is a gps tracker. the problem bears wear them so they can be found easily.

i give up. i’ve tried every setting. maybe my hands were shaking. no, jerry couldn’t get one either.

maybe the back window was too dirty, even though i had just taken pictures through it. so i stuck my head out the side window and finally got a picture. i think she saw me.

i don’t like the zoom on this camera as much as the sony. it was 20xzoom. this one is 14x.  it doesn’t get as good a picture zoomed in either.  that may have been one of the problems. i had it zoomed in too much and the bears kept moving. they stayed there for 5 minutes or so. they were in the shadows and behind trees a lot of the time though. but it was very exciting and fun to watch them forage.

the bears are a problem here. the park has really taken steps to keep them under control and safe. there are food lockers everywhere. at every viewpoint. every campground. at trailheads.

after all that we got ready and headed to glacier point. it was a beautiful day and the drive was gorgeous.

you can see by this screen shot you have to drive from #1, our campground,  all the way around the road to get to #2 glacier pt.,  which is  26 miles. but only 8/10 of a mile away as the crow flies. but boy is it worth it.

to see the view at glacier point,

stay tuned