EAGLES: Common sense lacking

Hey, I have a great idea; let’s leave our brains at home and go to Wolf Lodge to look at the eagles! And, since we are brainless we can have all kinds of fun.

Like, stopping in the middle of the road opening the car door and snapping a few photos. Or after we have spotted an eagle that is close, we can do a 10-point turnaround, effectively blocking both lanes of traffic. What the heck — we’re here to see eagles.

What about that corner into Beauty Bay — you know the one. That’s where the guys with the spotting scopes and cameras are. There’s no doubt that we can park 12 cars in a space for maybe two, then we can mill about in a bird watcher’s stupor in and out of traffic. Who cares if it is a blind corner? If it is too busy where the guys with the cameras are (they are as interesting as the eagles because their cameras have lenses the size of field artillery), we can just set up our tripods in the highway. And to top it off, we’ll pull into the Mineral Ridge parking lot even though it’s full and the guy in front of us is trying to back out because the two cars in front of him are doing the same.

I’ve lived on the east side of the lake since ’73 and every year seems more incredible than the last when I try to make my commute home.

GREGORY TORLINE

Harrison