We saw signs for bear all over Alberta but never saw any bears. I even tried making picanic basket noises with no luck. The only wildlife I saw were some big deer looking things. I think they were elk but could just as easily have been mooses since I wouldn't know one from the other. On Jul 21, 2015 21:12, "'Hawaii Sean' via Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" < nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Canadian bears must like vehicles. When I took my family through BC we > were on a 90 kilometer dirt road, I thought the sign said 9 kilometers but > it truly was one of the best parts of our trip. Anyway, we rounded a > corner to find a brown bear sitting in the middle of the road. He looked > at us like "what are you doing here" got up and ambled into the bushes. It > was amazing and my kids were really excited. I wanted to jump out and take > pictures but my wife stopped me - I guess she didn't want me to get eaten. > > On my motorcycle trip on Victoria BC island I had a cougar, or so a friend > from there told me it probably was, run across the road about 100 feet in > front of me. Very cool and got the pulse rate up. I didn't think about > stopping that time.... > > Sean > > > On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 5:12:57 AM UTC-10, surfswab wrote: > >> He might've thought you were sumthin' to eat. Like a big banana, maybe >> (!) >> >> On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 10:28:44 AM UTC-4, EGrider wrote: >>> >>> One thing I forgot to say is I got charged by a brown bear yesterday! I >>> was cruising at about 70 mph with my feet up on the highway pegs when a >>> bear appeared from the left side of the road and charged me like he wanted >>> to hit me broadside. I swerved the best I could but I still expected to >>> feel him hit my rear wheel. But he missed me! >>> >>> Needless to say, it scared the bejeezus of me and my heart was racing >>> for a while after that. I was lucky. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
