Rocky Mountain Splendor

Gary, Karen and Brady's hospitality Mack Mesa Lake and the "Bauer Bros" Crazy CousinsCamping at Island Lake - Three beautiful, beautiful daysAlex fishin' Monday eveningRoss and Chet fishing @ 5:30am

I woke up to Chet's fishing pole tapping on my window -"It's fishin' time Aunt Becca" :0)A brand new morning with dew drenched flowers along the path to the lakeWild strawberries, too! Chet's lookin' a little sleepy by mid morningPhine Phisher and PhloristBeautiful gazing Alex living up the lake life
Will they get wet? Will the canoe tip? Yes!

Was the trout delicious?

Y-e-s-!

Does Brady prefer worms over fish for breakfast? !

No way!

Brady prefers bananas for the tummy ... . . and fish for pets

The amaaazing,

the one and only,

the fantastic, kid-bike, mountain racer !

A cold mornin' and a toasty campfire

(Alex has spotted the jay below)

Beautiful blue - Stellar's jay

Funny, outgoing Gray jay

(sometimes called camp robber jay or whiskey jack jay)

A pre-camping picture to illustrate a new use for needlenose pliers - bug decapitating...

Brady was discouraged by his leftist auntie. This is a Brady entraped ant on a local spider web...

and said ant down below making a run for it after Aunt Becca released it...

... to be continued :0)

continued . . .

A whistling marmit on the way to Brady's lake

Fishing at Brady's Lake

Free Bait

Just like a Papa bear showing his cub "Now here's the grub, little scrub"

(said in a great-beeeg, rumbley, looow voice)
Just what the rainbows ordered!
Locally grown and ripened,
sustainably harvested . . . ;0)

Woooo Hooo, Awesome Worms ! Tying on bait and living the lake life . . .Another brookie for RossRoss's side of the lake was beautiful:

a world of streams, beautiful water gardens and flowers and a lovely waterfallChet and Alex -Two very fine young men.

A hidden treasure on the hike back.