Volcanos, Lynx and Moose Oh My

What a crazy weekend. Saturday afternoon we went for a walk in the neighborhood and a dark cloud began to move across the ocean towards our house and the winds began to pick up. After getting home, I stayed outside to shovel snow and soon I could smell sulpher and had grit in my mouth. Mt. Redoubt ash fall had started. Meanwhile Jolie and Hope were inside and saw four Canadian Lynx, a medium size wild cat with tufts of hair on their ears and feet as big as saucers. They are an endangered species. I missed seeing them, but.....the next morning we saw them agan and got some pictures and video. Here is a picture of Mt. Redoubt from our front deck before the eruption.

Below is Mt. Redoubt with steam starting to come out. This is on March 22, Jolie's birthday.

There were four lynx. For such an elusive animal, it is amazing to see even just one. I can't believe we watched four of them, from our kitchen windows. They were hanging out under Hope's play set and it looked like they were not happy about the ash on the snow getting in their paws. They kept shaking and licking their feet. Enjoy the pictures and the video.

In the picture above, you can see three of them.

The snow looks like a bright white from their paw prints. This is because the top of the snow is covered with ash from Mt. Redoubt. The ash is not like an ash from a wood fire, but is very gritty from the molten rock. Not good to breathe, or drive in and very abrasive. Saturday night we had 80 mph winds and it drifted the ash around the snow.

The picture below shows how big their paws are, this helps keep them up on the snow.

We called our neighbors and told them about the lynx. Then we saw a cow moose in the driveway and another moose, a bull moose, off the back deck. What a morning.

Video of the Lynx in our back yard.