This is a Pronghorn, or known in North America as an Antelope. However it is it's own species and is not really an antelope.
This view is of the western side of the island as we drove toward the campground and the Visitor Center.
We stopped and had our picnic lunch at the campground. Great view, eh? Jim and Peri are eating while I pursue a bird's beautiful song..
This unknown bird was singing it's heart out atop a small tree. The challenge is for some reader to identify it! I have been unable to do so.
After leaving the campground we headed up the coast toward the beach on the way to the Visitor Center.
When we walked through the sand toward the water, we saw this deep print. So this is for my grandchildren!
Peri got into the Great Salt Lake up to her ankles. Remember that it is still winter here in March! The mountains in the background are the distant Wasatch, I believe.
Don't you just love seagulls! You all know the story of how the seagulls saved the early pioneers here with their first crop which were being eaten by crickets or grasshoppers or some bug! They have a statue to honor the seagull on Temple Square.
Ah...the beach! It was nice to see a beach again after so many months away from one!
This was a weed but it sure had a nice golden bloom on it. It might even have been a sagebrush.
This view is of the causway we drove over to some to the island. The photo was taken from the Visitor Center.
This is a gneiss rock, the oldest rock on the island. The southern two-thirds of the island is made up of this rock. It is 2.7 billion years old, and 10 times older than rocks from the earliest era of the dinosaur.
These are example of the tufa rock, the youngest rocks on the island. They are only about 25,000 years old.
This is a salt crystal which forms when the Great Salt Lake reaches it's saturation point for salt. Each year about 70,000 boxcar equivalents of salt flow into the lake. Nearly half of that is extracted each year for commercial use.
This graph shows where the ancient Lake Bountiful would flood if it were in existance today. The first icon going up is Temple Square, the next the Capital Building, next the University of Utah. The last two probably would not have been under water, the This is The Place Monument and Ensign Peak.
I misread the map and sent us on a long way home to the causeway, but found these deer grazing in a field near the road. I believe they are called mule deer because of their large ears.
Now you can really see the ears!
As we passed over the causeway on our way back to SLC, we saw these American Coots on the water. They are great little birds who seem to flock in pretty large groups. We had seen them before on the lakes & rivers of Florida & Georgia.
This is a Pronghorn, or known in North America as an Antelope. However it is it's own species and is not really an antelope.
This view is of the western side of the island as we drove toward the campground and the Visitor Center.
We stopped and had our picnic lunch at the campground. Great view, eh? Jim and Peri are eating while I pursue a bird's beautiful song.. 
This unknown bird was singing it's heart out atop a small tree. The challenge is for some reader to identify it! I have been unable to do so.
After leaving the campground we headed up the coast toward the beach on the way to the Visitor Center.
When we walked through the sand toward the water, we saw this deep print. So this is for my grandchildren!
Peri got into the Great Salt Lake up to her ankles. Remember that it is still winter here in March! The mountains in the background are the distant Wasatch, I believe.
Don't you just love seagulls! You all know the story of how the seagulls saved the early pioneers here with their first crop which were being eaten by crickets or grasshoppers or some bug! They have a statue to honor the seagull on Temple Square.
Ah...the beach! It was nice to see a beach again after so many months away from one!
This was a weed but it sure had a nice golden bloom on it. It might even have been a sagebrush.
This view is of the causway we drove over to some to the island. The photo was taken from the Visitor Center.
This is a gneiss rock, the oldest rock on the island. The southern two-thirds of the island is made up of this rock. It is 2.7 billion years old, and 10 times older than rocks from the earliest era of the dinosaur.
These are example of the tufa rock, the youngest rocks on the island. They are only about 25,000 years old.
This is a salt crystal which forms when the Great Salt Lake reaches it's saturation point for salt. Each year about 70,000 boxcar equivalents of salt flow into the lake. Nearly half of that is extracted each year for commercial use.
This graph shows where the ancient Lake Bountiful would flood if it were in existance today. The first icon going up is Temple Square, the next the Capital Building, next the University of Utah. The last two probably would not have been under water, the This is The Place Monument and Ensign Peak.
I misread the map and sent us on a long way home to the causeway, but found these deer grazing in a field near the road. I believe they are called mule deer because of their large ears.
Now you can really see the ears!
As we passed over the causeway on our way back to SLC, we saw these American Coots on the water. They are great little birds who seem to flock in pretty large groups. We had seen them before on the lakes & rivers of Florida & Georgia.
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