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My walk to the bathrooms this morning was interrupted by a sudden clamoring and commotion, and an outburst of noisy pots being played (badly) like the drums…It took a second to register, but then I knew it had to either be some already drunk campers, or a bear. I had to deliberate only a moment before I saw the cute little beast. It was a medium sized black bear, perusing the perimeter of the camp. He (she) seemed only slightly put off by the ruckus. More annoyed that it obstructed the path to a potential feast. It just tried to skirt around the army of campers to find a gap to plow through…It didn’t happen, and after a few minute standoff the bear went on its way (hopefully in the other direction of the road).
I know, you thought Alaska was bear country…well, guess again…
Check out these fun facts:
Bear facts in Yosemite
My new favorite saying “speeding kills bears”.
Bears and Vans
Don’t worry folks, we drive a eurovan, not a mini van – its totally different. We only live out of our van, so have multiple pantries of food, and we probably reek of dinner even if all our food is stored in the bear safe… We have been cooking and eating out of this thing for a couple of weeks. I am sure it smells like one big lunch box.
When we go to sleep at night every far off sound of a door shutting or even the neighbor camper snoring brings dreams of bears stalking our snacks.
This is the bear bulletin at our camp – updated weekly! Check it out, sadly there is already one more bear hit from last week.
Don’t have anything respectable to say about these, except I promise it wasn’t as bad as it looks. It started out honest, just trying to warm up a bit with some delicious Beligium Beer.
The real culprit were the devilishly dark chocolate milano cookies!
But the combination killed it!
So you’re stuck with my pictures alone since at the time I couldn’t coax the camera into taking even a single incriminating picture of Kristine.
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