Kokanee Salmon

After General Conference, Wes and I drove up to Porcupine Reservoir to get a look at the Kokanee Salmon.  They are currently swimming upstream to spawn, and it is such a cool thing to see if you want to hurry and take a drive up there!  I had no idea that we even had salmon here.  They are smaller than the ones we saw in Alaska, but just as fun to watch as they try to jump up over rocks and make their way up the river.  We saw hundreds of them.  They are bright red and the stream is very shallow.  They were so close, I wanted to reach out and touch them!  Except we're not supposed to disturb them while they are spawning.  The lake was low, but it was a pretty night.  We left just as a storm was coming over the mountain.  We live in an incredible place, and we are so lucky to be able to just step out and enjoy nature and these incredible sights all around us.

We walked over a bunch of mud cracks where the lake had dried up: