Observation Essay
Antelope Island: An absolutely nice place to visit
My friends and I paid a visit to the Antelope Island Park that is one of State Park in the north of Utah, after such long, overwhelming, and exhausting weekdays. After this unforgettable travelling of the Antelope Island State Park, we all made a decision that we will come back there again one day because the trip of having fun in the Antelope Island made us leave a large quantity of unforgettable memories as well as a variety of amazing things to enjoy, which were amazing us without doubt. As a matter of fact, the Antelope Island is the largest island in the Great Salt Lake, so we decided to see how wonderful and brilliant the beautiful scenery in the island would be and it really was a beautiful exotic paradise close to where I live. I felt surprised by the breathtaking view of the Great Salt Lake and also, the smell coming from the water of Great Salt Lake just was the same as the small from the beach where I used to spend my whole childhood to live. I was very excited because before being the Salt Lake City I used to live near to the beach in Lima and I am actually missing a lot the smell, the feeling of walking barefoot in the sand, and the feeling of listening to the sound of waves beating rocks along the beach. It makes me feel as if I were in the heaven because the smell of sea water and breeze coming to my face softly could really take all my thoughts away from me and definitely bring my heart to an endless peace.
We were mesmerized by the beautiful scenery while driving to the island. There is a narrow way over the lake specially built for the purpose of connecting the island to the highway, so we drive to the island easily. It seemed to be, by virtue of it being so narrow, that we were driving over the lake. I had the feeling as if we were to sink into the lake. It was almost 8:00 p.m. so we enjoyed the sunset while reaching the island. The feeling was amazing because we enjoyed the mysterious colors in the sky that majorly showed orange, however also reflecting a little bit red and brown sometimes, with the gulls flying to us and also the smell like beach, therefore the moment being so relaxing and inspiring that I would never forget in my life.
We finally reached the island with many expectations and so many unbelievable experiences were waiting for us. It was almost getting darker little by little and the sky suddenly turned dark red. The first thing I noticed was that all around us was bunches of wild sunflowers. As a result, fields and the small mountains were turned into yellow because of them. No one could deny the fact that women love flowers, and of course I am not the exception. My female friends and I were so crazy about them so we stopped many times to pick them up, though my male friends did not think it was a good idea to some extent. While driving to the camp, we saw a herd of bison. At that time, I was a little bit scary because they were so incredible big. The problem was that they walked slowly and peacefully to the road so we could not continue driving in that way. After waiting for a few minutes without any changes, we decided to drive back to other ways. It was almost deeply dark, hence we almost hitting small pronghorn antelopes and wild rabbits in the small road where full of wild life hanged out. We stopped in a kind of parking lot and then decided to have a rest, and by comparison, in the outside we could nearly hear coyotes howling. In fact, it was extremely scary for me because I was afraid that they might attack us, and nonetheless full of shining stars in the sky were like a soft dark fabric with a lot of diamonds. Frankly, I have never seen such a breathtaking picture in my life.
In the morning of next day, we decided to go hiking to the Buffalo point, which was a nice mountain easy to climb. It was amazing to see full of sunflowers everywhere and another kind of purple flower too. It seemed that all those sunflowers were saying “Hi!” with a shiny smile. We were amazed to see the scenery that combined the lake with the red rocks, the green and brownish field, and the blue sky. It was so perfect and I could not help asking myself so many times, “Is it real?” Sometimes, I thought those images only could be found in Google Image rather than in reality so that I always thought what I saw right now was not true and I was dreaming, not knowing when I would wake up. I wanted to keep that moment forever and for always. After that we had a light lunch and then we went to the lake to swim. I did not recommend that experience to anybody because the lake was full of little brine flies that had ability to walk over the water. I observed them very close and they seemed to enjoy what they were doing as if they were skating over the water. Perhaps, it was the only thing that could make them happy. I tried many times to make them sink but it seemed to be a mission impossible. Besides, water is too salty and shallow, and thus every time when I wanted to open my eyes I just could not do that because it was very painful. I tasted it and it was really salty more than sea. It was like an over salty soup, and then I regretted what I did because the water looked dirty, but anyway I really tried it.
My friends and I have definitely made up our mind that we will be back because there were a lot of things that were worthy of enjoying, and as a matter of fact, we just loved it. I learned that enjoying nature was the best experience ever of my life because it could take the boring routine from you and give us fresh air, inspiration, and the feeling that the Infinite created that exotic paradise just for us. Next time we will certainly rent horses to ride and maybe a boat to enjoy, and it could be imagined that it is just going to be perfect, therefore I strongly recommending this unforgettable and memorable experience to everybody.