Yeah, it's cool

Sometimes when you see something really cool, you’re like, “Was that really super cool or am I just silly for thinking that was cool?”

I was at the Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch a long time ago and at some point one evening took a break from the hang out to take a walk outside. There was a gang of about 10 elk right in the middle of the ranch. They were huge! Amazingly huge! 

I went in and announced: Woah, everyone, there are some elk outside and they are really flipping cool. Folks were like, oh, yeah, nice. Elk.

I was like: What? Y’all aren’t even gonna check it out? 

Nah. 

Back to the river. I was paddling sime ago and this duck skims out from the bank and wingflap-paddles out in front of me. There was no way I was going to catch it, but it continued like this for some time with me following along. After a bit it looked around, swam to the other side of the river, alighted from the water and did a 180 and flew back to the basic vicinity of its original spot. 

I’d heard about some ducks doing this to lead predators away from a nest, but never experienced it. 

Objectively cool?

Damn straight. So were the elk. 

So much coolness