WiLDFILLY's ALASKA ! Moose

Moose.

Don't get me started. Let me first say that we did not see

any wild meese during our entire visit, even though we drove

hundreds of miles through so-called "ideal moose habitat."

All the brochures SHOUT at you: "4000 moose roam freely

all over the Kenai Peninsula....." -- my strained and aching

red eyes disagree with that statement. Perhaps the mooses

were all on strike the week we were there.

Even though the second day we were there, the Anchorage

paper printed, on the front page, a picture of a cow moose

and her TWIN calves in a back yard in South Anchorage.

Even though my web partner taunted me daily with his

'moose sightings' on his way to & from Anchorage to visit

us. Even though two days after I got home, my partner sent

via e-mail two pictures (below) of yet another cow &

calf in Anchorage, taken by respected Alaskan

photographer, Tearie Skerrit.

The only meese WE saw on our whole trip were inside a

corral at Big Game Alaska, eating breakfast from inside a

HORSE trailer !

I say the notion of moose in Alaska is all a publicity stunt,

dreamed up by the Alaskan Tourism Bureau, to lure us

greenhorn tourists there and make us spend more of our

hard earned dollars there, buying moose souvenirs to take

home, since we have no memories or photographs of

sightings to take home with us.

I truly believe that the awesome pictures of moose that

end up on the front pages of Alaskan papers & in magazines

are somewhat staged. The 'stars' of the pics, the mooses,

are hired in from Canada, where I believe they really DO

have meese, if only because I haven't been to Canada

yet and haven't NOT seen any mooses there.

Alaskan mooses, (if there really ARE such things,) had

plenty of opportunities to show themselves....they did NOT.

I also believe that the three mooses we saw at Big Game

Alaska, eating hay out of that horse trailer, were unlucky

Canadian National Mooses. In trying to escape Canada,

they were captured and imprisoned in Alaska. I swear I

could see the maple leaf branded on their a...err, hip.

Further, I believe that the numerous piles of so-called

'moose poop' are shipped in FROM Canada, and conveniently

dropped by the cupfuls, ok, the bucketfuls, at all the many

tourist attractions and road-side turnouts. The fact that

the piles happen to be in close proximity to broken

branches, mipped-off greenery, and huge patches where the

grass is flattened is a mere coincidence. It merely shows

what some talented people will do to encourage the tourist

trade in some places.

On the plus side, Alaskan tourist shops DO have some

awesome moose souvenirs......caps, shirts, magnets, a

moose t...err, pellet in a jar, mooses on ivory, mooses on

postcards, stuffed mooses, mooses EVERYWHERE but where

we could see them -- naturally in the wild.......laughing.

Join us on our journey !
By Day	By Location
	Anchorage
Sunday	Matanuska Glacier
Monday	Portage Glacier
Tuesday	Big Game Alaska
Wednesday	Whittier
Thursday	Prince William Sound
Friday	Kenai Peninsula
	Trapper Creek
Moose	Alaska Facts
Denali	Chugach Range
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