Port Renfrew, British Columbia – A gun cracks through the mist.
"Only one reason to shoot in town," I think, frozen alongside the main road. "Garbage bear. And I bet it's gonna burst out of the bushes right – THERE!"
Ten feet in front of me, the understory erupts. A black bear, buttful of buckshot, legs it for deeper forest cover.
Fifty miles of wilderness and I encounter megafauna on tarmac. Figures.
Castleman cool!
ReplyDeleteCool, a bear!
ReplyDeleteare you sure it wasn't one of the monsters that stalked you the day before?
ReplyDeletePetra: I planned an escape route into the cab of a logging truck, had the bear bolted back my way. That's probably cool demerit points, though, eh?
ReplyDeleteDB: spoken like a true Canadian! What type of animal does it take to impress you stone-cold northerners anyway?
Sascha: I was probably being stalked by a clumsy squirrel or something the day before, whereas this was a living, breathing, scared-$hitless bear.
I dunno, maybe a capybara?
ReplyDeleteNo shame there: even the fearless Scooby cowered before the Monster of Mexico...
ReplyDeleteI am shocked to learn that Casey Kasem, at the age of 102, is still the voice of Shaggy. Now that is impressive.
ReplyDeleteAnd how!
ReplyDeleteArticle, DB, ARTICLE!