Wouldn't have been so bad if this was Stare Bear, I was thinking I wanted to be somewhere else at the time.. This is Trump she looks a bit different this year not as robust as she has in previous years especially for September.
The salmon run was coming to an end the bears know they only have a couple more months to gain as many pounds as they can. Vancouver Island Bears do hibernate during the winter, perhaps not the deep sleep that bears in colder regions enjoy.
He considers coming up to me, pauses for effect, then wanders away. From the summer.