After sleeping for over 8 hours, we left the house to run and get some groceries and odds and ends. We were probably gone about an hour. When we returned, and pulled into the driveway, I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. Of course, it was my blind eye, so it was probably the wind blowing leaves on a tree. But, wait, the movement was larger than just leaves, and it was coming toward me - at eye level. Holy s**t it was a moose! In the driveway! Not only was it a moose, but it was a mama moose and her yearling. Talk about being frozen in your seat! They quickly moved off the driveway so we could pull in, and then abruptly stopped along the trees and started grazing.
In fact, they totally ignored us. The young one (on the left) then bounded about 40 feet back toward us and into the yard, as if he was playing and then went right back over by mom and started eating again!
Only in Alaska!
After about a minute it was clear that we were not bothering them one bit, so we parked the truck, slowly opened our doors (I wanted to be able to jump back in the truck and shut the door just in case mom decided to charge) and unloaded our groceries and went in the house. By the time we made it to the front door, the two moose had moved on through the woods and over to the neighbors yard. Man, I love this place!
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Wow...how awesome is that. Moose that close very cool.
Marty, they were so close that I could have tossed a ball and hit them. It was incredible!
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