Monday, 16 July 2007

There be Bears Here


As i drive back along the road in torrential rain due to a localised thunderstorm I see some movement off to the right hand side and I am lucky to see 4 bears (1 Mum with 3 cubs). They are walking there way along the forest - mum is trudging along but the cubs look like they are having fun and running amok. The mum stops to do some digging when there is a massive flash of lightning followed by a loud clap of thunder - one of the cubs jumps into a low branch of a tree. After this they wander off and I do a bit of crawling along trying to see as much as possible. The mum has been tagged as the local rangers like to keep tabs on who goes where. After leaving the fuzzy dudes behind another 200metres up the road a deer runs out - it was too quick for my camera though. The bear pics are a little blurred and small - I wasn't exactly going to get out and go over to them no matter how cute the little ones looked.

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