Pizza delivery

« The bear necessities of life will come to you ». My understanding was that the bears hibernate in the winter, except for a few, but when the snow melt, they will awake and come down hunting for food. Best time of the year to see the bears is between May and September.
From our back garden the trail leads directly into the forest and down to the river Lynn Creek. It is a path that is partly overgrown, but a classic forest trail, very silent, but occasionally you can hear a branch creak, snap, the wind blows, and can you really hear something? Is anyone or anything watching? Down by the creek the rush of the rapids obscures almost all other sounds, and the rich natural beauty of British Columbia abounds and you feel quite safe. Wandering along the trail up and down Lynn creek, it can seem a little creepy, but we never saw any wildlife, although sometimes around a bend, behind a tree, we could never be sure what was there, or could be there, or was once there.

The storming of the Bastille.

At 08H40 on July the 14th, we heard a loud bang. My fear was someone stealing the newly acquired buggies. However, it seemed a strange noise. Tonnetje arose to take a look and the dog burst out of the door onto the deck and barked furiously. Tonnetje rushed in and grabbed the camera. “What is it?”, I remarked, “A bear has got the old pizza boxes” she replied. And sure enough, there was George the bear in the neighbours garden, whilst two empty pizza boxes lay on the ground next to the garbage bin lying prostrate outside our shed. Gazing from the safety of our deck, we observed George, who made eye contact with us, but otherwise seemed unmoved. Tonnetje clapped her hands once, and he (or she, couldn’t really check) just carried on appraising the situation, although on a second clap and shouting “Go” he did loiter off. Strangely, no one wanted to wander down to the river that morning……..

I (Tonnetje) now realise we cannot leave our rubbish bin outside and the bin has to be put outside on the street 30 minutes before pick up (07h00 in the morning). We were warned by the neighbours, but I thought it can’t be that bad, well it is!

Here some pictures I took from “George”