Our annual camping trip took us 90 miles south to Quartz Creek. The creek leads into Kenai Lake - one of the prettiest blue lakes I know of. We camped here as a kid and it has changed - they even have flushing bathrooms now. Next year we might add in a horseback trailride or rafting the kenai river. It was Sydney's first campout and we anticipated being fire watchers, but instead we now deem her "the wanderer" as she did not want to stick around our site, but make friends with anything 2 legged or 4 legged.
Friday night there were 2 grizzlies in the backside of the campground that gave campers a bit of a scare. One was across the creek, a boy started yelling at it to make it go away further - instead it came charging through the creek and towards the campers. The mom's sitting around the fire just figured the boys were yelling bears as a joke and then they saw the 2 grizzlies about 200 feet from their firepit. As they say it, "we calmly got our wine glasses and went into the camper." The bears wandered towards the horse stables, walked into a horse trailer then the owner shut the door and made the call to Fish & Wildlife who tranquilized the bruins and took them away. Gotta love life in the big outdoors.
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