Saturday, October 25, 2008

Bears....




Bears in Whistler are like pigeons in the city...everywhere! They must have built this track right in prime bear habitat.
I have seen so many bears in the past 10 days that I am starting to recognize them and see their differences: there was a little cub climbing a tree, a teenage bear sitting in a tree and looking down on the people below, big black bears, small black bears and an especially fat and cuddly brownish black bear.And they are all eating grass and flowers...like cows.
It took me a while to take a decent foto, because...as all my German friends who have visited Canada know:...whenever you bring a camera and want to see a bear, they are hiding.
But this one spent all morning with me beside the track on Friday....safe distance, of course!

3 comments:

Leslie said...

I have lived in Canada all my life and very rarely seen bears. The one time that I did see a group of bears was many years ago in Whistler. They really do like that area. They must enjoy eating fallen skiers and bobsled camera people. Be careful!!

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Ingrid said...

Wat to go Kirsten.
Thanks for sharing your adventures with us unfortunates who have desk jobs.