Our visit to Antelope Island while staying at the hot springs resort was our only siteseeing adventure. So we drove the 90 miles to Salt Lake City for a day's outing. Antelope Island is located in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. First we took a drive around the island; the views were lovely. There was a contrast in landscape; you could stand in one spot and see dry desert plants, then turn to see the green landscape from the s
prings that come up in sporadic areas, then turn again to see the salt from the Lake. Along the lake shoreline between the salt and the springs we could see buffalo grazing. If you look carefully at this picture, along the bottom are the dry desert plants, then an area of semi dried grass, then the green of the trees from the spring. The white is the salt from the lake and the blue is, of course, the lake.
And at the visitor center we saw several nests with baby swallows.
We then signed on to take a "wildlife safari". The mode of transportation was a restored WWII land/sea vehicle.
We stayed on land the whole time. We went to the area of the island that is restricted and where all of the "wild" animals roam.
We saw quite a few buffalo, mule deer and even a jack rabbit.
Since this was called Antelope Island, we expected to see herds of antelope, but there were none to be seen.
It was a fun outing.
Love to all of you.
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