Today has been a truly remarkable day. First and foremost we have seen 9 (!) bears. Two mother bears with two and three cubs, respectively. They were both about 50-100 m away from the road and we could stop, watch them and take pictures. Next, we saw two lone bears, which were just next to the road in the bushes (ca. 4 m away from us when we passed them by bike) and they either ran away or just watched us pass. We weren’t fast enough to catch the two last encounters on picture, though. All bears we’ve seen today were black bears. In this region there happen to live grizzly bears, too. The difficulty is to tell them apart, as the color does by far not suffice as indicator. Try it yourself! Second, we have also seen a mother moose with her calf. For once, the road signs were correct. All animal encounters have just happened within three hours during the morning. Third, we have hit our 5000 km milestone today. Fourth, we are now exactly three months travelling – from the beginning of spring to the longest day – so we have spent one third of our travelling time on the Panamericana. Fifth, we just cycled one of our most strenuous daily legs with 143 km and 1351 m altitude gain in 6:31 h (and ate 600 g of pasta for dinner). After such a day, what could be better than a refreshing swim in a scenic and calm lake? We hope for many days alike to come and feel “beary” lucky!
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Carina Pullen
27/6/2016 06:04:09
WOW guys! 9 bears in a day, so lucky!! So special to see, that is the one thing we missed on our trip, we're leaving Canada in 3 days and still haven't seen a bear.
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