Another interesting place in
Williams is Bearizona, this was our second trip and as before we really enjoyed
our visit.
One of the things we’ve always been
told when out hiking is don’t run from bears or cougars as they’ll naturally
assume you’re prey and good to eat, so stand your ground, make yourself as
large and threatening as possible and they’ll back off. Well that’s what we’ve always been told,
thankfully we’ve never been in a position where we’ve had to put this to the
test, and I hope we never are!
The other thing we’ve always been
told is don’t climb trees to avoid bears, again thankfully, we’ve never been had
to test this either, but bears are pretty big animals could they really shin up
a tree that fast?
The answer is Yes! Yes! Yes!
On this trip to Bearizona when we
visited one of the bear areas, I think they were juveniles; everyone was
looking up at the trees. At first we
couldn’t see anything,
when we looked again, we could see a couple of
bears were high up in the pine trees, snuffling around the branches enjoying themselves. Branches I might add that to us in no way
shape or form looked anywhere near strong enough to support a bear.
One bear peeped out to admire either
the view or possibly wondering what all the tourists were looking at.
Both bears admiring the view
We watched them for ages, at one
point it almost seemed as if they were playing to the crowd, then they decided
to come down, I thought this would take them a few minutes. Wrong!
They were down in seconds,
starting to come down
On roll
Made it
So it really is true, don't try, because you definitely
can’t out climb a bear!
On our drive through, we saw this
Alaskan Tundra wolf, he was so cute but we managed to resist the temptation to
give him a cuddle.
The white buffalo enjoying a spot of lunch
Enjoying a snooze in the afternoon
sunshine
We really enjoyed our second trip to
Bearizona and no doubt we’ll visit again on one of our trips.
Have fun, we are!
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