River Otters are here, but I only get to see one on the Lake every year or possibly every year and a half.
In fairness to the otter I wait until it comes to me. If it were a beaver or muskrat, I would know where to look to find one, but with the otter—well, I haven’t a clue, so I only see it when it visits me.
The Kootenay Lake website offers other, and better pictures, of local River Otters.
As usual when it comes, it only stops by for a few minutes. It hops out of the Lake, frolics on a dock and is soon gone again out onto the Lake. Maybe someday I will figure out where it lives, but for now, I must be content with an occasional visit.
An otter stops by a dock as a log floats by.
And of course I have to include a picture which shows the result of the rising water.
