Last week Walker’s parents were in town visiting and I’m sharing the pictures out of order. I can do that right? After a couple of days in Seattle we headed to the San Juan Islands for a long weekend. I’ll be sharing more of the trip in the next couple of days. The last night we were there Walker and I decided to spend some time outside taking long exposure pictures (he loves doing this). We got a few by the marina and then ventured up to the hilltop toward our hotel and took a few more. Then things got interesting…

As we were overlooking the water I looked to my left and saw a buck (as in a deer with antlers) standing about 5 car lengths away. I wasn’t all that alarmed since we had been seeing does all over the property and they didn’t seem to notice or care about us in the least. At this point Walker and I were standing and looking at the deer. It was also just standing there looking right at us. I told Walker to take a picture and if you’ll notice below a ghost of a buck right in the middle. That is because while Walker was taking the long exposure of the buck it started to walk right at us.

Now I was still not too concerned but Walker was getting pretty worried. We backed away a little but he kept coming. We walked backwards up a hill that swung back to the left so that now we were parallel to the deer instead of in front of him. I thought well now he can keep going wherever he was headed. But instead he turned and walked right up the hill behind us! Now I was freaking a bit also. Between us and a set of antlers was nothing…

We both thought and said now would be a fine time for a car to drive up the road and what do you know it did. I’m pretty sure there was a split second that I covered my face thinking oh great the deer will get scared and run right into us. Luckily he took the shorter route and headed up a steep hill in the opposite direction of us. Phew! It was crazy!

Now I can say, “Hey Walker remember that time we got chased by a deer?”