Utah's Beach

Yesterday, we decided to take a small day trip. I've been wanting to do something exciting before school started, but since Brody is strongly adverse to driving, I had to find a place to go that wasn't too far from our house. He finally agreed to take me to Antelope Island. I've always wanted to go there for some reason. It just sounded intriguing and I've lived in Utah for 5 years now and still haven't gone to the Great Salt Lake so yesterday was finally the day!


Even though the island is named Antelope, it is famous for its herd of buffalo. I stood by this nice buffalo statue at the visitor center hoping to real life buffaloes. (or I was reminded they are called bison)Later we were lucky enough to see these. We got pretty close but a park ranger made sure we weren't too close. I guess the buffalo are very aggressive at times.


We spent the day hiking and visiting the beach. We hiked through a lot rocks to see some amazing views. It was a super windy and hot day. Antelope Island is definitely a wasteland, but it is the closest we get to a beach in Utah. I figured since I can't visit a real beach I should at least visit the huge salty body of water that we have hear.

Sadly, my least favorite part of the trip was actually the beach and the Great Salt Lake. The beach was full of painful rocks and we had to walk across it forever to get to the water and then the lake is ridiculously salty. It left this gross residue all over your body from being in it. I even attempted to float in it. Unfortunately, I was not successful!

The 'not so beautiful' beach

P.S. I was sad that I never saw an antelope!