What's the most amazing wildlife encounter you had?
Would be interesting to hear what you guys all see out there...
The most amazing wildlife scene I witnessed was a couple years ago in spring, when the lake ice was getting so rotten that I had already punched through on my way to the waterhole and decided not to go on the ice anymore. One day later, this sounds like a movie scene but it's true, I was just enjoying a bath in our wood-fired tub down by the lake, I saw a grizzly walking along the edge of the ice on the other shore. He was going at a really fast pace, totally plugged in, and then started veering out onto the ice! He crashed through and after struggling a bit fought his way out again. He kept going along shore, sort of sliding more than climbing up a couple of incredibly steep cliffs, and then to my dismay headed right out on the ice again! By that time he was already a kilometer or so south of here, so I abandoned my bath and ran to grab the binoculars. What followed were some of the most heart-stopping moments in my life, that bear was so determined to cross the lake (caribou had calved on the other side just a couple days before), he just forced his way across. Breaking in with his hindquarters every few steps, hauling himself out and a couple times going all the way through the ice and taking minutes to pull himself out again. He made it, and the next day I went to look at the spot where he got out - his path across the ice was a trail of churned ice crystals, like a signature.
