Black Bears, Rain
Super-Visas Approved Lone Heron on a diving platform Hopkins Landing beach Thu Aug 26th BREAKING NEWS Having written all about bear encounters and rain, our lovely immigration advisor rang early afternoon to say out Super-visas had been approved. We're over the moon. It means we can now stay for 10 years in 2 year chunks, longer initially if our visitor extension gets approved. Should be enough time to get residency sorted! Earlier in the day ..... Having complained in yesterday's blog about the risk of bears being attracted by people not taking their green food bins in at night, a large male black bear interrupted my dog walk home this morning. One hundred yards from home he ambled down the entrance drive from one of the neighbouring properties and disappeared in the bend in the road. Dilemma, he's between me and the house, proceed or 'phone a Fred'. As it was a local walk I had no bear spray or bangers. I opted for the ph...