So Cool!

Last summer, Jack, Walter, Larry, Micah, and I took a boat ride to take Leslie's set net out of the water. After getting the net into the boat we took a ride into Kwik. On the way in we saw a moose up ahead. When we got closer to it we saw that it was drinking water and probably eating grasses. The guys were saying that it was a young bull. "How do you guys know?" I asked. Jack pointed to the little stubs of antler on the head. We watched the young bull for about fifteen to twenty minutes, then they scared it into the trees. It never came back out, so we went farther into the slough. While we were driving along we saw a cow and a calf that were drinking water. When we got close to them they ran up onto the tundra. We went ashore a little bit ahead of them, then Jack and Walter ran up onto the tundra to check where they were. They tried playing with the calf, but the cow attacked them. They managed to get back down to the boat just in time, though. After they got into the boat we took a short ride farther into the slough, and the boys showed me where they liked to hunt for moose in the wintertime. On our way back out of the slough we saw the same young bull moose we'd seen when we first went in, but it was on the other side of the slough this time. When it started crossing the water at the end of the little slough, Jack and Walter started playing around with it while Larry drove the boat right up to it. After that, we left the little bull alone and came home. That was the first time I'd ever seen a moose, and it was so cool because we got to go right up to it!