Hello friends,
Todays post will have a few surprise pictures for you! I was so excited when I got to take them! I liked the drive through Kootenay, it was stunning. I am pretty sure we pulled over at every turnout on the side of the road there was! I even made my boyfriend stop on the side of the road a few times haha
All mountain pictures may look the same to everyone, including some of you reading this, however I find them all unique in some way. I could and do take pictures of mountains all day long!
They just look so majestic!
Here is the surprise! A beautiful grizzly bear! Oh my gosh I cannot even explain how long we were waiting to see one of these! This highway had a no-stop section because there were apparently a million grizzly bears out, but we didn’t even see one until it was almost time to leave!
Staring right at me! I was like a little kid on Christmas morning when I realized I got a picture like this.
The transport truck actually scared him off down the hill and we were the car in front of it! So lucky that we were not behind that truck or else we would not have seen this beautiful bear!
Just look at his hump though!
This was the last bear of the trip that we saw. A beautiful little black bear! There was about 4 cars stopped on the side of the road and we were like, well there must be something there! Finally we spotted it! So I made my boyfriend get on the other side of the road so I could get a better picture, but there was a VERY LOUD motorcycle, which scared him off before I could get a good shot! I was soo mad!
Anyways, in the end I guess I was just happy to see a few bears on the trip! Have you ever seen a bear in person? I have been seeing bears all my life and I still get so excited when I see one! I could not imagine never seeing one before!
Until next time,
xoxo
Phoenix's Life 
Wow, what a wonderful experience seeing the bears. 🙂
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It was! 🙂
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Every time we go to the mountains I swear the bear know I’m coming and they run for the hills! I can NEVER find them!
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Oh no! haha you have to watch very carefully, usually they are right behind the tree line like the black bear is in my picture!
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I’ve seen a couple. Black bears. Small. Here in Virginia on a back road where there should have been NO BEARS, and driving through West Virginia in Monongahela National Forest. That one was about 100 feet away. Plenty fine for me.
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It’s always nice to keep your distance from them, but nice to see!
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Lol I laugh because I can’t imagine being excited about bears. It’s sad, I wish I was!!! Just too many in my life
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Amazing. You were so close to these amazing animals. I would have to say this trip was a success.
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It definitely was
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Great pics – in years of traveling through grizzly country, I’ve never seen one (though I am often happy for that – if I see one, I want to see it from the safety of the car, not while I am out hiking!).
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It is definitely better to see it when you are in the car! lol
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It would be amazing to see bears in the wild! I live in Australia, so I never get to see them, only if I go to the zoo.
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I love seeing the bears also. On a trip to Alaska we saw a few grizzlies, but we weren’t allowed to get quite as close to them as you were. Unfortunately there was a steady drizzle the whole time we were there. But here are two links for stories and photos, the first link has the grizzlies, the second one has a mama black bear: https://suzanklassen.com/2016/01/26/share-the-road/
https://suzanklassen.com/2015/11/24/you-cant-get-there-from-here/
Thank you for visiting my site. I’ll check back to yours for more Canadian vistas.
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