A curious, lone coyote greets this autumn day's first tourist at the park's visitor center. Two bison graze on a nearby hill while a northern harrier seems at play on the wind. Taiwan resident Norman Shih ambles up a hill at a nearby sandy beach clutching a bottle filled with salty water.
Guests enjoy a dinner- cruise on the lake.
At park headquarters, a group of German journalists writing about mountain biking listen to assistant park manager John Sullivan describe the Great Salt Lake's ecology. I am waiting for Buffalo Bill and the Indians to come over the hill. Eddie Wagner, another German journalist, says he once played with a small plastic buffalo as a young child. He also saw a bison at a zoo, but it was nothing like the big bull that wanders across the road as Sullivan is talking. The journalist is fascinated.