The line was forming at the buffet breakfast table:
and we sat down to enjoy our bagel and coffee:
We all piled onto the bus to take the half hour ride to the launch:
The trip was terrific, as usual, and the ride was pretty much as exciting as the rides we took the last two years with the other whitewater company. The biggest differences were the breakfast and the bus driver, who gave us much more colorful dialogue about the history of the area along the way to and from the trip. We went to the photo shop in town to order our pictures from the trip and will pick those up today. We saw two bald eagles on the trip, but, of course, we didn't have our camera, as they are not allowed on the trip for obvious reasons. We all got drenched going through the rapids.
Following our rafting trip and the visit in town to order our photos, we took a drive into the Tetons to try a side road that we have driven past dozens of times, but never drove. We made a pleasant and surprising discovery on this road. There was a parking area at the end of this approximately one mile road where we parked and got out to walk to the area that is called Scwabacher Landing.
Shortly after starting out on the walk along this beautiful area, we spotted this small group of photographers that were taking shots of a model for some purpose:
We were immediately taken by the unusual views of the mountains and the reflections that were in the water that ran all along this long trail through the bottomland. Here are some photos that could easily be made into postcards:
There were many areas along this path where the wildflowers were beautiful:
We kept reminding each other that this was a secret place that we wished we had discovered before. We walked about a mile on this path that continued on for an unknown length. It will definitely require a return visit when we can walk the entire length of the path.
We finished the wonderful day by grilling a steak and sitting outside to enjoy the rest of the beautiful day. The clouds eventually rolled in, and we had a brief storm in the early evening.
Our morning, today, was interrupted early with the discovery that our credit card account had been hacked and we have unauthorized transactions. We have been on the phone with our bank and the process has been started to take care of the problem. We are getting tired of being made victims of these hacking attacks and don't know, at this point, how to prevent them. New safeguards and security protections are suppose to prevent these, but they still happen...
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