点评:Luckily our tour guide Meadow met us at the general store at Colters Bay Village (where we were staying). We met her at 6am for our 12 hour full day tour of Yellowstone National Park!
Our family of 4 fit nicely in the 4 wheel drive SUV with 2 hatches in the roof! There were very good high quality binoculars each of us could use, and Meadow had a stocked basket of locally sourced snacks as well as fresh coffee and hot chocolate if our girls wanted it!
We drove to Yellowstone and Meadow took us around the parts of Yellowstone we hadn’t explored yet (we had visited the western and northern portions of the park, as well as a lot of the southern parts). She knew we hadn’t seen a grizzly, big horn sheep, wolves or male moose yet, so she drove to parts of the park to the East where we could hopefully find them.
Meadow had a high quality scope that she could hook her phone up to for videos and photos (which she sent to my phone via air drop)!
Before the tour we also had to tell the tour company what we wanted for lunch (an assortment of food options, even vegetarian) and also provided sodas, waters and seltzers.
Meadow found a shaded picnic spot where we could relax and enjoy lunch.
We were so happy with our long day and saw so many additional animals than what we saw in Yellowstone by ourselves!
We saw:
* Geese
* Hawk
* Male elk
* Mule deer
* White tail deer
* Raven
* Group of female elks w 2 fawns
* 2 birds (brown bird that looked like a mix between quail and turkey?)
* Huge male elk
* Pelican
* Sandhill crane
* Canadian geese
* Black and white ducks
* Damsel flies
* Marmot
* Bald Eagle
* Red tail Hawk
* Grizzly bear (possibly male, 550lb)
* Small black bird (lives in tree hole, maybe from wood pecker?)
* Swallow
* White tail deer
* Great blue heron
* Mule deer males
* Chipmunk
* Ground squirrel
* Black and white duck
* Light brown ducks
* Bald eagle
* Plover?
* Butterflies
* Dragonflies
* Small black and white bird (like chickadee)
* Robin
* Baby squirrel (gray?)
翻译:幸运的是,我们的导游梅多在科尔特斯湾村的杂货店处与我们会合(我们就住在那里)。清晨6点,我们开始了长达12小时的黄石国家公园全天游览之旅!
我们一家四口轻松地坐在那辆带有两个车顶天窗的四驱SUV里。车上为我们每人都配备了高品质的望远镜;梅多还准备了一个装满当地特产小零食的篮子,如果女儿们想吃的话,还有现磨咖啡和热巧克力可供享用!我们驱车前往黄石公园,梅多带我们游览了那些我们尚未探索过的区域(我们之前已经去过公园的西部和北部,以及南部的很多地方)。她知道我们还没有见过灰熊、大角羊、狼群或雄性驼鹿,于是便开车带我们去公园东部的区域,希望我们能在那里遇到它们。
梅多有一台质量上乘的望远镜,她可以把手机连接到上面来拍摄视频和照片(她还通过隔空投送把这些照片发到了我的手机上)!在游览之前,我们还必须告知旅行社我们想吃什么午餐(提供了多种食物选择,甚至有素食选项),同时也准备了汽水、矿泉水和苏打水。
梅多找到了一处有树荫的野餐地点,我们便在那里放松身心、享用午餐。
这一整天的体验让我们非常满意——我们看到的动物数量远远多于自己单独在黄石公园时看到的!我们看到了:
* 鹅
* 鹰
* 雄麋鹿
* 骡鹿
* 白尾鹿
* 渡鸦
* 一群母麋鹿和两只小鹿
* 两只鸟(棕色的鸟,看起来像是鹌鹑和火鸡的混种?)
* 体型巨大的雄麋鹿
* 鹈鹕
* 沙丘鹤
* 加拿大雁
* 黑白相间的鸭子
* 豆娘
* 土拨鼠
* 白头海雕
* 红尾鹰
* 灰熊(可能是雄性,体重约550磅)
* 一只小黑鸟(住在树洞里)也许是啄木鸟的痕迹?
* 燕子
* 白尾鹿
* 大蓝鹭
* 公骡鹿
* 花栗鼠
* 地松鼠
* 黑白相间的鸭子
* 浅棕色的鸭子
* 白头海雕
* 鸻鸟?
* 蝴蝶
* 蜻蜓
* 小型黑白相间的鸟(类似山雀)
* 知更鸟
* 小松鼠(灰色的?)