Moose. |
Don't get me started. Let me first say that we did not see |
any wild meese during our entire visit, even though we drove |
hundreds
of miles through so-called "ideal moose habitat."
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All the brochures SHOUT at you: "4000 moose roam freely |
all over the Kenai Peninsula....." -- my strained and aching |
red eyes disagree with that statement. Perhaps the mooses |
were
all on strike the week we were there.
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Even though the second day we were there, the Anchorage |
paper printed, on the front page, a picture of a cow moose |
and her TWIN calves in a back yard in South Anchorage. |
Even though my web partner taunted me daily with his |
'moose sightings' on his way to & from Anchorage to visit |
us. Even though two days after I got home, my partner sent |
via e-mail two pictures (below) of yet another cow & |
calf in Anchorage, taken by respected Alaskan |
photographer,
Tearie Skerrit.
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The only meese WE saw on our whole trip were inside a |
corral at Big Game Alaska, eating breakfast from inside a |
HORSE
trailer !
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I say the notion of moose in Alaska is all a publicity stunt, |
dreamed up by the Alaskan Tourism Bureau, to lure us |
greenhorn tourists there and make us spend more of our |
hard earned dollars there, buying moose souvenirs to take |
home, since we have no memories or photographs of |
sightings
to take home with us.
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I truly believe that the awesome pictures of moose that |
end up on the front pages of Alaskan papers & in magazines |
are somewhat staged. The 'stars' of the pics, the mooses, |
are hired in from Canada, where I believe they really DO |
have meese, if only because I haven't been to Canada |
yet and
haven't NOT seen any mooses there.
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Alaskan mooses, (if there really ARE such things,) had |
plenty
of opportunities to show themselves....they did NOT.
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I also believe that the three mooses we saw at Big Game |
Alaska, eating hay out of that horse trailer, were unlucky |
Canadian National Mooses. In trying to escape Canada, |
they were captured and imprisoned in Alaska. I swear I |
could
see the maple leaf branded on their a...err, hip.
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Further, I believe that the numerous piles of so-called |
'moose poop' are shipped in FROM Canada, and conveniently |
dropped by the cupfuls, ok, the bucketfuls, at all the many |
tourist attractions and road-side turnouts. The fact that |
the piles happen to be in close proximity to broken |
branches, mipped-off greenery, and huge patches where the |
grass is flattened is a mere coincidence. It merely shows |
what some talented people will do to encourage the tourist |
trade in some
places.
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On the plus side, Alaskan tourist shops DO have some |
awesome moose souvenirs......caps, shirts, magnets, a |
moose t...err, pellet in a jar, mooses on ivory, mooses on |
postcards, stuffed mooses, mooses EVERYWHERE but where |
we
could see them -- naturally in the wild.......laughing.
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...The little one is LAFFIN' at me.......GRRRRRrrr....... |
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By Day | By Location |
Sunday | Matanuska Glacier |
Monday | Portage Glacier |
Tuesday | Big Game Alaska |
Wednesday | Whittier |
Thursday | Prince William Sound |
Friday | Kenai Peninsula |
Trapper Creek | |
Moose |
Alaska Facts |
Denali | Chugach Range |
Approximate Driving Distances | |
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AWARDS |
Moose, |
Sorry, information is limited on this subject, due to lack of |
sightings on the trip. |
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