{"id":546,"date":"2022-08-11T01:20:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/?p=546"},"modified":"2022-08-11T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:23:40","slug":"mooses-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/2022\/08\/11\/mooses-in-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooses in the mist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I drove up the Elliot Highway this evening at sunset to Whitefish Campground (about mile 6 or 7) just to get out for a while. As I started back, I saw this small lake or slough with mist rising off it, so thick and white that it looked like it was smoking. Very beautiful and weird!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I parked on the shoulder of the highway and walked down to the shoreline to take some pictures, and was cheerfully doing this when I looked up and situational awareness kicked in and I realized there was a moose watching me from really not all that far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quietly I walked backwards up to the car and continued to watch her for a while, and eventually spotted what I guess was her calf deeper in the swamp. No pictures of that one; it was too mist-cloaked to see very well, but I could definitely tell that it was another moose, especially when she turned and sloshed toward it, making those little grunting noises they sometimes do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was completely magical, one of those joyous moments that reminds me why I love living here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I drove up the Elliot Highway this evening at sunset to Whitefish Campground (about mile 6 or 7) just to get out for a while. As I started back, I saw this small lake or slough with mist rising off it, so thick and white that it looked like it was smoking. Very beautiful and … Continue reading “Mooses in the mist”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alaska","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}