While I haven’t seen much larger wildlife I have been seeing lots of birds and smaller rodent type creatures. Tree Squirrels , chipmunks, and ground squirrels. In Duchesne there were tiny chipmunks the size of a mouse. So cute.

Coming out of the Manti-la Sal National Forest I saw a Jack rabbit – the size of a medium dog with ears almost as big as his body.

Snakes!! At the bottom of the Little Grand Canyon I drove over a snake then in our campsite we watched a 3 foot gopher/ rat snake cross the dirt road to get to Abby. The snake crawled up into the warm motor Where Steven removed the snake. The snake then climbed into a nearby tree. The next morning there was a snake trail from the tree to under my van, MollyG! Luckily we didn’t see any more snakes at this camp!

Bugs! Bugs! While we camped along the Delores River in Colorado the gnats were horrid. Large swarms flew near our vans. I think the bugs were bad because of all the COWS! The last night I went to bed and noticed 3-4 gnats flying around my lights. I proceeded to kill several rounds before starting to read. A few minutes later I looked up at my light to see 1000s of all types of flies, gnats, etc. I sprayed them with Terra-Shield which meant I had thousands of bugs plastered to my roof, light and cabinets. The thought of sleeping with all those bugs was frightening. So I got out my portable lantern, turned out the van light and then when the portable lantern was covered in ? bugs, the lantern went outside!