River day, elk encounter

I went up to Cowichan River on Vancouver Island with my girlfriend and her dogs. It is stupid hot here right now, terrible. I'll wish for the heat again though when we're in the darkness of winter.

Location


Clay bank eroding. We smeared ourselves in clay and are considering trying to sell some. You know, dress it up as some spiritual magical rare expensive thing, haha. We were wondering if clay ever hides good rocks/fossils? Didn't find anything in the clay ourselves. 


Throwing rocks for her dog to catch. He loves it. Does not love actually catching them though. We could lead him all the way up the river just throwing rocks ahead of him.


And the elk. They are massive! Neither of us had seen elk in person before but I've met a few moose. These elk were amazing. There was a whole herd of them. They stand still in the forest and always keep trees between you and them. A bounding elk is intimidatingly huge. They're as big as my truck. Glad we were in the car at the time. We're going to be back to hunt some eventually. One could probably feed you all year.





And a couple rocks we found


Here's me, looking for rocks



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Thanks for looking and have a good day!