First night in Denali National Park

We all slept in Wednesday morning. Headed toward Denali about 2:30 in the afternoon. After taking our time and making several stops along the way, we eventually arrived at our hotel around 7:30 that night. We had a nice dinner and decided to drive into the park to do some wildlife spotting.

 About halfway to Savage River, I spotted a huge bull moose really close to the park road.

We watched him a few minutes as he snacked on spruce tips and other foliage.

 This moose was huge with a very impressive rack!

 We continued to watch in solitude, which is the great thing about going into the park late at night. You basically have the road to yourself. We drove on to Savage River hoping to see a bear or lynx, but none materialized. As we made our way back, we saw two more bulls actually eating together. It is hard to tell from this photo, but they were really close to one another. 

We have actually never seen this before. As we headed back to the hotel, Martina scored her first official moose spotting when she was able to find the first moose we had encountered,

but then we encountered a 4th bull moose right on the road!

 We had never seen so many bulls congregated in such a short time. What a great night for viewing moose!