PIW - Botanical Beach Pt.2 - Bear!

The Shorts and Gaiters Inaugural Adventure took place on June 5th and 6th of 2011. Karsten Klawitter and I have been on many wild and wonderous photoadventures and decided to take two days to explore the heck out of several sites around Southern Vancouver Island.

1 Places I've Wandered - Gonzalez Hill Sunrise
2 Places I've Wandered - Not Sooke Potholes
3 In Transit - From Sooke River to Botanical Beach
4 Places I've Wandered - Botanical Beach pt.1
5 Places I've Wandered - Botanical Beach June 2011 Pt.2 - Bear!

Places I've Wandered - Botanical Beach June 2011 Pt.2 - Bear!

Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island is one of my favourite places in the world. And hours of exploration each trip still reveal amazing things! Let's continue our exploration now




Look around and see what you can find.. engage in life and you'll not be disappointed



Then in the distance we saw it...


This is the second time we've discovered a black bear walking along the shoreline at low tide eating sea urchins from their little nooks


In front of the bear's right paw can be seen a purple blob aka sea urchin


Here's a photo of a sea urchin's shell from which the multitude of spikes emanate


The Island Alpinist walked to a higher vantage point and I worked a distant flanking maneuver


The bear was content working its way out to the point


Occasionally we'd get a pause and a look from the bear. But we were still far away and being very non-threatening and it would always just get back to casually eating the sealife.



I dub this to be Bear Rock


It was a great delight to spend quite awhile observing the bear about it's foraging but eventually we had to move on for there was much beach and many more kilometers to cover before we were to fall asleep on the top of Mt.Prevost in Duncan, BC.

So on we go along the beach (I think I have an idea about where that black rock may have come from... )




See you around the next bend!
The Maplemusketeer