Long Drive Home

After 3 days in Bryce Canyon, we did some arithmetic and realized we had three days left before our health insurance ran out and we'd have to be over the border.  So we had some heavy driving ahead of us.

The first day we drove to Willard Bay State Park, just north of Salt Lake City.  We'd stayed here two years ago but it was much busier on this Easter weekend, full up.  We went for dinner at the Idle Isle restaurant in Brigham City, a town so Mormon they have two tabernacles across the street from each other.  They did serve coffee and tea at the restaurant though (Mormons don't drink caffeinated beverages).  It's an old fashioned diner with a soda fountain.

It fits in very nicely with their very nice old fashioned main street, still full of real stores (no olive tasting bars in Brigham City), but I did notice a storefront advertising tarot and palm readings, so perhaps it's not as Mormon as it looks.

Brigham city is also :

The gateway to the World's greatest waterfowl refuge

and after dinner we did the driving tour of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. 

But after driving most of the day, a long drive around the one way loop was a bit much and we (perhaps for the first time ever) got a little weary of looking at birds by the time it was over.

Also, there was a crazy amount of gnats, which made focusing the camera difficult:

That's an American avocet behind the gnats.

Bird Quiz:

What's the difference between a western and a Clark's grebe, and which is which?