Moose on the Loose (Canada 2013)

This is a "repost" from 2013. Below is what I originally wrote. Sitting here 13 years later I think I may have had some bad mushrooms or something because I don't understand what I wrote.

... but I remember the event, so I will try to make it more clear now.

We were at a place in Canada that is on the Alaskan Highway. The little campground was called "Toad River". I just looked it up and it is Mile 422 on the Alaska Highway. When we were there in 2013 and again in 2017 the Lodge was a restaurant, gas station, bus stop (important bus stop) and RV Park. The building was called a lodge, so maybe they had a few rooms to rent also. 

In 2013 they had wonderful food and great service in the restaurant. They had hats (baseball hats) stapled to the ceiling and walls. There didn't appear to be a place for another hat. In 2017 when we went through again, the food was okay and the service had taken a dive. The hats were all still there.

The RV park was next to water. If you sat still you could see beavers busy working in the water. They were lots of fun to watch and photograph. And they were BIG.

They had backed up the water and created a big shallow lake. As we sat there in the park minding our own business a big moose came across the road and into the RV Park. Big mistake. All the dogs went into a frenzy. They barked and barked. Apparently the moose had not bargained for this chaos. Maybe he did this in the off season when the RV Park was empty??? 

So the dogs were barking and the moose was panicked. He ran "to and fro". Finally he found his way through the park and to the pond and started feeding off the bottom where there were grasses or water plants growing.

Later in the trip we saw other moose feeding off the bottom of ponds and lakes, so this must be something they know and like.

So that is the story of the picture as I recall it now 13 years later.

Below is the original post.

In one of the campgrounds a moose wanted into the shallow lake. I saw him come across the road. He wanted to cross into the beaver pond, but Pam was sitting there watching the beaver. So he went down the road and came into the camp. Of course all the dogs in the camp enjoyed that as did everyone with a camera. The moose panicked a bit but figured out where the lake was and waded into it leaving dogs and cameras behind.

This is not a photograph posted for esthetic purposes, but just something of interest in our trip.

As with other days we are having a hard time finding a internet "hot spot" in the mountains.

We are currently at Denali National Park at the RV station where there is a hot spot. I sat outside in my mosquito suit and tried to fend off mosquitos in order to look at email. Pam gave up and brought her machine back to the RV. When I couldn't take it any more I came to the RV to discover the internet works here!!! Now if we just had some more juice in the battery.