August 25, 2014

Well, the weather is finally getting better. I was able to fish a little this afternoon in Tower Creek, that runs beside the campground. I caught 8 small rainbow trout and had several more get away.

The morning was spent in a nearly futile search to see wildlife. Each place I went either nothing had been seen or they had just gone into the woods and weren't visible.

At Slough Creek, though, there was a close encounter with antelope. There were several in the area and, just as I was getting ready to leave, a male joined them. They all skirted the turnout and the male posed for me. He was about 50 feet away:

The original image is so sharp, you can see his eyelashes. At the point that photo was taken, he was looking to take the group across the road, but traffic was making him hesitant. So, he took them back around the turnout:

And crossed there.