We headed West this morning. We drove to the Devils Tower to check that out. We did the hike around the tower which was pretty impressive. We saw three different groups of climbers on the walls of the tower. I tried climbing just a little bit, but Lora told me to get down. From the there we continued West on 90 and made it to Tongue River Canyon just outside of Dayton WY. It is a beautiful canyon with about 6 campsites. We got one. After dinner we walked the road up the canyon and we also got to talk to the man that lives right across from our campsite. He has a house on the other side of the river.
Friday morning we drove down to the end of the road and hiked the Tongue River Canyon Trail No. 002. It is a four mile one way trail that climbed out the far end of the canyon an into a large meadow where the animals feed during the winter. It was amazingly beautiful trail. After we got back, we ate lunch, did laundry, and then enjoyed the river for the afternoon. While sitting on the rocks in the river, Lora let out a scream. An otter was sneaking up on her. This is a wonderful place to camp for sure.
Saturday we loaded up and headed up the mountain to spend the day at Sibley Lake Recreation Area. While driving down Tongue River Road we saw a ring neck phesant. We climbed the mountain and found our lake. It was cooler on the top so we hiked the Prune Creek Loop looking for wildlife. After not seeing any we took the canoe out on the lake and ate lunch on the lake side. After a relaxing paddle, we went in search of the moose that we were told about. We found him laying down in the woods.
We traveled a little farther West and explored Prune Creek off 193 hiking the trail off the end of the road. We saw a ranger on the trail and visited with him. Then we headed back to camp where we found that it was too hot, 100 degrees, so down to the river we went to cool down. We saw a mink along side of the river. It was a good wildlife day!
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