BE BEAR-Y AWARE!
As is the usual of a Wednesday morning, I nonchalantly gave the end of our drive-way a cursory glance to confirm Darling Hubby had remembered to place our trash cans, and orange-hugging-over-sized trash bags, out for the 9am collection.
He nearly always does but as is Murphy’s Law, the one morning I don’t do this, will be the morning he’s forgotten or is running late and hasn’t time to put them out. Unfortunately when it comes to trash days here in Kitimat unlike Australia where we’d wheel our bins out the evening before-hand, here we must do it that morning. Preferably the closer to pick-up time the better as unfortunately there are only two seasons here when it comes to trash – SNOW season and BEAR season!
Whether it was due to Darling Hubby having to be at work extraordinarily earlier than usual hence the bins went out earlier, or the fact we had a lot of fruit scraps (read watermelon skins!), we had a visitor to our trash. Our trash was in a two meter neat line along the side of the road. This combined with the markings on the bags had me in no doubt it was a bear who had been rummaging.
The rib bones weren’t touched but the watermelon rinds, welllllll…

The watermelon rinds looked as if a giant grater the size of garden trowel had been scraped over each one (the rinds were completely smooth when thrown out as I’d cut the entire melon up with a huge kitchen knife so I knew this wasn’t the result of over-eager children’s teeth marks!).

Yup, these bears may look absolutely gorgeous from afar but this reinforces the need to respect these mighty beasts and STAY A RESPECTFUL DISTANCE FROM THEM WHENEVER POSSIBLE!
Next week however I’m thinking I may stand guard over the trash cans with my camera, from the safety of our front balcony of course. I wonder if it would be worth my time or would I begin day-dreaming and thinking… “mum, how much longer?”
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