There was nice bright overcast when we awoke, so I had a quick breakfast and made coffee to go. We left in the Jeep at 7:30 to go exploring in Muncho Lake Provincial Park.

We went as far as the alluvial fan where we had seen the stone sheep ram yesterday, but didn't see any stone sheep there on the way so we turned around and headed back.

We stopped at the salt lick trailhead and I took the approximately 0.7km path down the hill to the salt lick overlook. It was a nice mossy area with lots of lichen. There were lots of wildflowers in bloom, but the slight breeze would make photographing them a test of patience. I took the other part of the loop back to the Jeep and we departed.

Back to the RV around 9:15. I started to set up the import functionality of this website to complete the data transfer process from my local machine to the server machine. I had lunch at 12:10 of my usual ham-and-Swiss. We left in the Jeep at 1:00 and headed back into Muncho Lake Provincial Park.

We came across some stone sheep just before an RV park and stopped to photograph them. There were three ewes by the road and two lambs on the gravel embankment along the stream. The two lambs were very curious about us and were good subjects. Well, they were quite comfortable as long as we were down close to the road which is when I captured the image to the left. They moved away from us when I tried moving in closer for a head shot, so I left them alone and photographed the ewes for a while. They spooked when a motorcycle went by and rushed off into the woods. I went back to where the lambs had been, and saw the ewes running away up the stream bed. Oh well, the lambs sure made the stop worthwhile!

We continued heading east along Muncho Lake hoping that we would find more stone sheep, but we didn't see any before we reached the far end of the lake so we turned around.
When we were heading back by the RV park, we saw the stone sheep again. It was the same three ewes and two lambs, but this time they had two young rams with them. As I was setting up, I saw a chipmunk nearby, so I photographed that for a while. I had already gotten some great images of the stone sheep earlier, so I was very happy to have an opportunity to photography another species in the park.

After I finished photographing the chipmunk, I started to photograph the stone sheep. They made their way along the shoulder and then spent quite a lot of time at a wider part of the shoulder where they must have been licking up salt. In the image to the left, the oldest ram must have known about the best spot because another sheep wanted to lick the exact same spot!

We returned to the RV at 3:35. I download my images an did a quick edit. Worked on this blog site a bit. Talked with J about our itinerary in Alaska because Kodiak is now a high priority whereas we hadn't been planning to go there before.

Dinner at 5:20 of Oliver's Creations Spicy Penne Arrabiatta. It sure was spicy, almost too spicy! J really liked it which was surprising because I usually like spicier food than J does.

Talked with J more about plans for Alaska. Worked on the import functionality of this website some more. Checked The Milepost for the next few days of our journey. Watched part of a Tony Sweet DVD. Tony Sweet is a nature photographer who does very artsy work and J really likes his style. We had watched another DVD of his a few months ago, and it was interesting to note some similarities he has with me. In that DVD he was wearing the same Arc'teryx fleece and Columbia hat that I have and he was equally energetic as me. In this latest DVD, he was recommending some of the same shooting techniques that I had mentioned to J before.