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Hi Everyone! :hug:
I just wanted to share this pic of a bear we saw on our day trip up north. We went to Stewart BC which is 3 hours drive north west from us... it is just beside Hyder, Alaska. We would have gone into Hyder, but forgot the birth certificates for the kids. We won't forget next time! We saw quite a few bears on the road, but this was the best picture! There's a Bear Festival there in August that I'm hoping we can go to.
Hope you enjoy the picture... he's a young bear. Still quite small. I could have almost reached out of the van and touched him he was so close. You can see that he was eating... still some green in his mouth!
Melisa,
Wonderful photo! Cute bear. Great study for how to create an open-mouth bear.
Karen
KJ Lyons Design
Waggle BearsWow, it does look like you were very close. Great picture.
Thank you! :hug: :hug: Here in Northern BC we do see a lot of bears, but it's still a thrill to see them, especially this close! They are such amazing creatures and so inspiring. We saw some cubs too, but the only ones that were close ran so fast that I couldn't get a clear picture of them. Hopefully in August I'll get some close ups of some cubs.
Dances With Teddy BearsGreat shot!!! Is he smiling...or contemplating eating someone? :crackup:
(We have some "local" bears here, but they are rather shy creatures, we rarely get to see them. I think that may be a good thing.)
Dances With Teddy BearsActually, he looks like he's ready for his afternoon nap, post snack. 
:crackup: He was definitely not interested in us for dessert... he turned tail into the fireweed within a few minutes of us stopping.
Wazza Bears Australiawow what a great pic. your so lucky to live so close to the wild bears. none here in aus only at zoos
True, it is great to be able to see them in the wild... but only in Australia did I see kangaroos in the fields, a couple lone koalas in the eucalyptus and parrots & galahs everywhere... amongst other animals you can only see in Australia. I so miss your wildlife... you have so many amazing creatures there!!
Great photo and looks like you were so close to the black bear.
Many thanks for sharing Melisa as we can only see these in books or the zoo.
Hugs
Carolyn
MerBear Originalsgreat pic. My daughter is living in Pemberton now (moved there 2 wks ago) and last night told me that she had just had to stop her bike to let a mother bear and her 2 cubs cross the road on her way home from work!
Marion
she had just had to stop her bike to let a mother bear and her 2 cubs cross the road on her way home from work!
That's good it just kept going... you never know with momma bears.
My husband has had some unnerving experiences with bears on his bike. One involved a grizzly and a black bear on a logging road & my husband was in the middle with only his bike. The grizzly was stalking him. He got on his bike & road straight for the black bear since that is the most likely to give way. Fortunately it did & he can still tell the story!
MerBear Originalseeek - talk about being between a rock and a hard place!
Does he wear bells to warn the bears he's coming? Although a grizzly would probably just treat that like kids with the bells on the ice cream truck!
Marion
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)Off to the the right and lower in the pic, deeper in the green, one can almost make out the larger shape of another older black bear with the cinnamon in the snout—look at all of the darker/black areas between the green stalks & leaves there and all of the regular greens on the left side. I think your friend may have had company!
Does he wear bells to warn the bears he's coming? Although a grizzly would probably just treat that like kids with the bells on the ice cream truck!
:crackup: That's about it! Actually, he now always carries a bear banger and bear spray with him when out in the wilderness. The bear banger is sooooo loud. I can't imagine a bear sticking around when one of those goes off!
I think your friend may have had company!
You never know! They can be hard to spot if they stay still in the bush. We didn't see anything else move, but I think this one was about a year and a half old, so its mom may have been near.
Back Road BearsGreat picture and Bobbie you are right! Wow! Great eyes!!!
Matilda Huggington-beareAll I can say is WOW!!!! lucky you. :dance: :dance:
