Lindsay had been wanting to swim in the Great Salt Lake for decades. Well, after tasting it (like all tourists),
he decided not to. The salinity varies with rain and snow melt, but it sure taste salty. The salt shrimp is the
only indigenous species that lives in the water. It supplies the food for a huge number of sea birds. We saw
literally millions of them. The wild life on Antelope Island is also amazing. There are normally about 700
buffalo on the island. I had suspected they would all be in a herd, but we found them to be in small groups
of 5 to 10 which evidently is their natural way. Usually a male, several cows and calves. They were huge.
We were able to get pretty close and then use our super zoom camera. We were also interested in the age
of some of the rocks which are some of the oldest known rocks in the world at 2 /2 billions years (even older
than Nancy). Hope you enjoy the photos.
The Great Salt Lake
Antelope Island is in the middle of the lake and is a state park. There are
150 antelope on the island, but we didn't see any.
Lone bull. I can not imagine and Indian killing one of these with a bow
and arrow. They get up to 2000 pounds.
Small herd.