You’re supposed to learn things about yourself when you’re traveling, right? Well, I have discovered that I have a not so mild case of being-separated-from-my-kayak-by-grizzlies anxiety. So, I spent the afternoon exploring the face of Reid glacier one stretch of beach at a time, as such: get to shore, look for bears, drag kayak up, look for bears, look at glacier, walk up to glacier, look for bears, look to make sure tide hasn’t washed kayak out, look for bears, take photo, check for kayak, look for bears, walk back to kayak, paddle 100 yards down the shore, repeat.
I feel justified now. I was wondering if it was a fluke that we saw those bears within minutes of anchoring—it could have just been a once a month kind of affair—but then this morning, the 18th, we woke up to a different grizzly on a different shore…so now it’s conclusive. They’re just absolutely everywhere.
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