The Moose -- Peter Michalski

During my recreation trip to the exit glacier in Alaska, my friends and i stopped at a hostel to spend the night. When we first got there we were all excited because are long car ride was over and everything around us was different. We all wandered around the yard taking pictures of the mountains and house itself until we got bored and went in side to settle in for the evening. After a little while i decided to go back outside and take pictures of some of the mountains in the back yard. I walk looking around when i heard something in the tall grass a couple of feet away. i looked over and it took me a few seconds to realize what i was looking at. Camouflaged in the tall grass was a moose! so far on our trip the only time we saw a moose was from really far away and they were all females so they didn't have antlers. This one was less than ten yards away and had a huge set of antlers. my heart began to race and i could barely take a good picture of it because my hands were shaking so much. After taking about a hundred picture of it i finally went back into the hostel to get every one else and we just took picture of it forever and watched it walk around and eat. Slowly we all went back into the house or just relaxed in the backyard. For those few minutes i was standing alone with the moose and my heart racing was one of the best moments in my life.