A bit touristy I know but I had a marvellous holiday about 2 years ago now
in Vancouver. Jumped on a sea plane on Vancouver Island and flew over to
Knights Inlet on the mainland. Stayed in a cabin (showered by torchlight !!)
and spent 2 days watching grizzlies during the Salmon run. No guns were
Closest I've ever come to a bear was when I was on holiday a few weeks ago
in Spain - went to the Barcelona Zoo, down by the docks, and saw one in a
cage.. Not the same as seeing them in their natural environment at all I
guess..:)
The one truly amazing animal they had there though was the
Northern Minnesota is a great place to see bears. Bears running down the
side of the road, bears in your back yard, bears rifling your stuff when you
are camping, and on a warm late summer evening you can go to the Vince Shute
Wildlife preserve (http://www.americanbear.org/) and see the bears up
When I was growing up, my family went to Yellowstone Park almost every year.
This was in the days before some idiot gave LSD to the bears. The bears would
come right up to the cars. Saw lots of them right next to the car window. (Dad
would NOT let us roll the windows down enough for Mr. Bear
I love nature and animals, but I think the only place on ever want to see a
bear is either on the Discovery Channel or in a Zoo. I have nightmares
about bears, I know, it's pathetic.
KK
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Author: Kevin Kostyszyn
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Won't go to zoos on principal !!
nuff said.
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Closest I've ever come to a bear was when I was on holiday a few weeks ago
in Spain - went to the Barcelona Zoo, down by the docks, and saw one in a
cage..
Mark Leith wrote:
Closest I've ever come to a bear was when I was on holiday a few weeks ago
in Spain - went to the Barcelona Zoo, down by the docks, and saw one in a
cage.. Not the same as seeing them in their natural environment at all I
guess..:)
Your going to Spain to see bears
Keep in mind that many many animals only still exist at all because of zoos.
And unfortunately that will continue to be more and more true in the future.
I much prefer my animals wild as well, but I'd rather see them then not see
them at all.
Marc Perkowitz.
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Bears become a problem when they get too familiar with man and when man
intrudes into the bear realm and is not familiar with bear behavior. When
bears get too familiar with man the rangers sometimes have to destroy them.
Sometimes the Yosemite rangers helicopter problem bears to the Yolla Bolly
A joke that has been going around the office the last couple of days kind of
fits with this. Not that bears have anything to do with Oracle but I am
just
coming off a 36 hour downtime in which I upgraded two Oracle databases,
complete
reconfigured another one, and getting tired of waiting for
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