Talk of the town

The dog and I were just finishing up our morning hike when I heard the rustling and saw the leaves and small twigs falling from the large oak tree. There had been some word of a family of bears around the island but this was the first sign of them, But this wasn’t just a sign, it was them! A beautiful sow and her two cubs. She sprawled out on a large lower branch while the two cubs clambered around much higher, with one, at the very tip of the highest point. I quickly ran back to the cottage, grabbed my cameras and made my way back to the tree. After that morning, it seemed these three became the talk of the island and you could easily track their movements through the endless facebook posts by residents. It became quite the entertainment for everyone as the bears kept a decent enough distance from cottages and only munched on the local flora and fauna, there was not much call for alarm, just simple awareness.