I quickly found out that a bear had been spotted stuffing face in a meadow up the road. I alerted Siri and we walked up to where a park ranger was fighting a losing battle with the onlookers, who were doing their utmost to ignore pleadings of staying the fuck in their vehicles or pulling back for their own safety. They had come for bear, and they'd found bear; no park ranger was going to stand in their way.
At first I thought it was a grizzly bear, and so did a lot of others. We couldn't get a clear shot; all I could see was a pretty good size animal of dark brown color. It wasn't really grizzly bear behavior to stay this unaffected so close to humans, but I just figgered we'd gotten lucky.
After I'd taken the car and gotten a bit further up I walked back to take more pics, and I soon realized it was in fact a huge black bear. He had pointy ears and no clear hump on his back, but since the color was a bit lighter I'd taken him for a grizzly. Now the behavior fitted too, of going about his sweet business and not giving a shit about people taking photos; a grizzly would likely have been much more shy.
At this point I still hadn't caught on.
Here I was getting suspicious.
Prominent ears. Case closed.
Pretty big fella.
My first pic from the first angle. See the color? No wonder I was fooled at first!
No comments:
Post a Comment