May all your wishes come true.
A face to face encounter with a top predator.
You will never feel as alive as you will at that moment and possibly never again.
:theyareon
Well I did once come close to a black bear, and happily have felt very much alive since that encounter
. Very fortunately I didnt get into any trouble. I had travelle with some friends to their holiday cabin in Canada. It was a wild and lonely place.....
I was in the habit of rising early and taking the canoe out to catch blue bass (I think thats what they were, good fighters a bit like perch with sharp spines on there gill cover's and frog lure's was a good method as there was a lot of baby frogs fall into the lake from the banks) I would catch and clean 2 or 3, stuff them with bread onions salt and pepper, wrap in old foil pie dishes and bake in a wheel rim fire. One time I was out on the water about 10 yards from the edge and I heard spalshing, I thought oh someone must be around the shallows with a dog, there was lots of little shallow inlets with reeds and stuff. (great places to watch fish). I registered the noise but thought nothing more of it. Next tyhing I look up ready to cast and theres a huge (so it seemed to me!!) black bear standing on a huge boulder right by the edge, 10 yards or so from me (and only about 2 yard's from the cabin
) I did nothing, I just sat
still and the bear (dont know if it was male or female?) stood-sometimes on 2 leg's sometimes on all 4, and we watched each other intently for maybe a minute maybe not even that long, then it ran away. I had no idea what its body language or anything meant. My host's were shocked and amazed as they had used that cabin for amost 30 years and had never sen a single bear
Subsequently we saw 3 more, a mother and a small one, and another eating beries with its paws:wow1: Another sight I can still see was a line of 4 or 5 deer swiming right across the lake in single file
A mate of mine went to Africa to take photographs of bird's and, sadly, was taken by a crocodile. They never found his body or even any bit's to send home
.
As for the human's being dangerous, I agree entirely. Then again I remember 1972 our scout camp some of the lads woke up to find cows (frightened by the guy lines), jumping clean over the tents
Cows sometimes like to have fun and chase people but they dig there heel's in at the last moment and wont hit you as they are more frightend than you. The odd ocasion they do harm is when they escape from a mart and get all disorietated and frightened and end up getting shot.
