Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Our Up Close and Personal Bear

When an announcement comes over the speaker “Bear on Ice” you would not believe how fast forty-five people can jump out of bed, on with the yellow parkas and make it out on deck or to the bridge. That’s what makes this ship so great. Whatever time day or night, a bear is spotted from the bridge its all up.

This bear was lying on the ice at three in the morning. During the next half hour he amazed us. He walked around,looked at us, came a little closer, went back to lying and rolling, then slowly made up his mind he would take a look. Absolutely out of this world stuff.

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The number of times he had to cross over onto ice and he still wanted to have a look at us

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