Wildlife Walk

Last night, we decided to go for a little walk down the street to take Taelyn to the playground. As we were walking out the door, I quickly grabbed our little camera and threw it in the stroller just in case there were some candid moments at the playground. When Justin saw this, he thought I was silly and asked if I expected to see a bear on the walk. Ironically, after making it about 400 meters down the road, we did actually see a bear! A momma bear and two little cubs were hanging out in someone's yard on our street and had apparently been doing so since about 10:30 that morning. We did not get too close because we were only walking and not in a car, but we could still see how massive the mother was. And of course I had my camera. Justin took a few pictures from a distance. I tried to crop the best one to zoom in a bit; it's are not real clear, but you get the picture.

After encountering the bear, we continued on to the playground and saw three deer as well. So we took some more pictures. Justin was even able to climb up on a rock within 10 meters of the deer to take a picture, and they are so docile and familiar with humans that they didn't move at all.

We obviously had quite the wildlife experience in just the short half mile walk to the playground!