The Secret of the Salt Monster

Sara

This is the tale of the Salt Monster, the monster of Great Salt Lake and area(Sara McLean version). 

We were walking along the mud flats by the Great Salt Lake.  Mungo stopped constantly to try to sneak a slurp of saltwater.  We always told him not to because if you drink too much saltwater you start to vomit.  He chased a lot American Avocets.  Then we heard a long, loud howl.  Mungo heard it too and he took off across the flats.  We called him back but the howl seemed to be calling him.  We decided to follow him to see what was making all the noise.  Eventually, we noticed the prints that we were following were way too big to be Mungo’s.  At least, some of them were.  The majority were Mungo-sized but every once and a while the print would be HUGE!  Here are some of the prints.

       P6100008                                  P6100012

       P6100011                                  P6100014

 

  Later we found the beast’s lair….         P6100018

                                   And it attacked!!!P1020144

It transformed back into a cute Mungo………

And fell asleep on the driver’s seat.P6100024