Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge

 If you have been following my blog for sometime you know hubby and I love to travel. Now that we are both retired we can up and leave whenever the weather is nice. This trip to Tennessee was planned just the night before we left, we wanted to take advantage of some mild weather for our drive to Tennessee. I had been watching  EBIRD the site to see if any Sandhill Cranes were still being seen at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge. 

We arrived at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge on the morning of  Feb 18th. The cranes fly into and out of the wildlife refuge daily. Numbers of  Sandhill Cranes and an occasional Whooping Crane can be seen at the wildlife refuge from November to February. We met some wonderful nice birders at the refuge, I believe the  local birders were looking for the elusive Whooping Crane. All the people and birders we met in Tennessee were super friendly and helpful.

We stayed in a nearby town Dayton, located just miles away from the refuge and not too far of a drive to the Falls Creek Falls State Park. The Hiwassee Wildlife refuge 6,000 acres is located where the Hiwassee River and the Tennessee River meet.

There were a lot of white-tailed deer in the area of the wildlife refuge. I am sharing one photo of the deer with this fence shot.

The observation deck is a good distance from where we saw the Sandhill Cranes. You know me by now, I still had to take photos even with the great distance.

A pretty blue sky with the Sandhill Cranes in flight.

In four days we drove more like 1,700 miles after sightseeing around the parks and Tennessee. We had a total of four days traveling, 2 of the days were taken up on the drive down to Tennessee and the drive back home. So we had just 2 days to see everything we wanted to see in Tennessee, not a lot of time.

A pretty view from the overlook of the Tennessee River and the Hiwassee Island.

Another favorite image was the moon over the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge.

I will have a lot more from our trip to Tennessee and of the Cranes coming soon.
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I am sharing some of my random travel photos, this is not only for my followers but more of a reminder for me and my hubby of where we have been and what we have seen over the years. All good memories for us, I hope you enjoy too.

These are various waterfalls we saw on the Hawaiian Islands, The Big Island of Hawaii, Maui and Kauai!

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I am sharing some of my random travel photos, this is not only for my followers but more of a reminder for me and my hubby of where we have been and what we have seen over the years. All good memories for us, I hope you enjoy too.

Niagara Falls, the name for three waterfalls that straddled the border between New York USA and Canada

Smurfs on the boat ride.

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Eileen's Random Travels

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"Travel is still the most intense mode of learning." Kevin Kelly

I am sharing some of my random travel photos, this is not only for my followers but more of a reminder for me and my hubby of where we have been and what we have seen over the years. All good memories for us, I hope you enjoy too.

Kauai has it very own Grand Canyon called the Waimea Canyon.

Hawaii's natural wonder, Waimea Canyon is 26 miles across and 21 miles north to south.

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Engelberg our B&B home for a week in Switzerland.

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I am sharing some of my random travel photos, these images are not only for my followers but more of a reminder for me and my hubby of where we have been and what we have seen over the years. All good memories for us, I hope you enjoy too.

All the photos above were taken during our helicopter tour of Kauai.
Sharing images from our trip to Hawaii, we went to the Big Island, Maui and Kauai.


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Eileen's Random Travels

..A Photoblog post of my random travels.

" We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone." unknown

I am sharing some of my random travel photos, these images are not only for my followers but more of a reminder for me and my hubby of where we have been and what we have seen over the years. All good memories for us, I hope you enjoy too.

Moose right off the trail, Rocky Mountain National Park

Elk Herd.

These are various scenes from our trip to the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.  As always thank you for visiting and for the nice comments.


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