Post your favourite Bear pic(s)!

[Bazza]

I enjoy watching bears on film or at a distance. Have had a fair amount of unpleasant up close and personal contact with them, so I can't say that I "like" them.

Ran into a friend of mine today at our local Winn Dixie.

Really good boat mechanic (or mechanic, period).

He's been spending the spring/summers in Alaska at a fishing resort. They have over 40 boats and he's the main guy now overseeing their maintenance.

Anyhoo.....I asked him about the bears. He said as long as they have their salmon.....and you don't get near their cubs...you are OK. He said there's a short period when the salmon stop running before they go into hibernation that you have to be very careful.

He also said (with a wink) when you're fishing and get a salmon on your line - look over and there's a bear waiting and watching!

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Ran into a friend of mine today at our local Winn Dixie.

Really good boat mechanic (or mechanic, period).

He's been spending the spring/summers in Alaska at a fishing resort. They have over 40 boats and he's the main guy now overseeing their maintenance.

Anyhoo.....I asked him about the bears. He said as long as they have their salmon.....and you don't get near their cubs...you are OK. He said there's a short period when the salmon stop running before they go into hibernation that you have to be very careful.

He also said (with a wink) when you're fishing and get a salmon on your line - look over and there's a bear waiting and watching!

My encounters have been backpacking, mostly, and I was the one with the food...

 

[Bazza]

 

[Bazza]

Incredible Sight: Around 230 Polar Bears Assemble For a Feast - Hasan Jasim

More than 230 polar bears have gathered on an isolated island for a big feast. The magnificent supper on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, on the other hand, was not planned. According to the Siberian Times, it happened on the spur of the moment when a bowhead whale became beached and...

hasanjasim.online

According to the Siberian Times, it happened on the spur of the moment when a bowhead whale became beached and perished.

According to a source at Wrangel Island Nature Reserve, ‘there were at least 230 polar bears, including single males, single females, mothers with cubs, and even two mothers with four cubs each.’

 

[Its On A Slab]

When I was into wilderness/expedition sea kayaking, a couple of the guys in our group were so minimalist, they opted for those high-end camping hammocks that you string between trees.

One of our guys derided them as "bear piñatas".

 

[Bazza]

A black bear in Montmorency County, Michigan has finally been freed from a plastic lid it had been wearing for two years. The DNR says they had been tracking the bear trying to catch it so the lid could be removed.