Estes Park

After Devil's Backbone we cruised up to Estes Park in my mom's Miata. No pictures, Shawn was a bit embarrassed of the little car. I guess I can't blame him, it is an odd little car. We geocached our whole way up and around the town for a total of 16 caches in the day.

Estes Park is the gateway to the Rocky Mountain National Park. I actually bought my truck up there when I was living in Colorado. You just have to watch out for the elk. When you drive through the large herds you just go really slow and don't honk your horn or they may attack your vehicle. I was all excited for Shawn to see the elk, but alas they had all moved up to higher pastures. We did see plenty of prarie dogs, a mama duck teaching her babies how to dive and lots of swallows (see bird sanctuary pic below). Also had a huge buzzard flying over us that I was too intrigued by to take a picture.

At Estes Lake, similar to Lake Chelan, but much warmer.