Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:44:36 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
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About people not just letting you be......
honking and flashing lights and yahooing........
maybe there are a lot of rowdies on Vancouver Island.
One time, driving to Tofino in the summer ........in a TD vanagon btw......
hard to believe, but driving with about 15 other cars in a line, in the
country, going about 50 ..........two guys on a motorcycle were weaving in
and out of traffic passing people whenever and whenever...........illegally
and unsafely ........
ok........so we see that sometimes, but the passenger was drinking beer and
tossing the cans as he went, while the driver was speeding and weaving and
passing in the wrong places etc. bear cans flying here and there, not even
mostly emptied.
Man.
Seeing that..I figured being a 'party rowdy' must be pretty popular on
Vancouver Island.
here's how they leave a Bush Ccabin in the far north, like to travel by dog
sled two days to civilation.........and leave the cabin behind.
The cover all the windows with blankets,
remove all food........leave the front and back doors standing wide open.
it's relatively impoossilbe to make anything really, really bear proof.
Steel and concrete pershaps.......but not car door, nor cabin.
There's yahoo's everywhere of course..........but I have gotten the
impression in BC at times.......that it's a little over the top.
Scott
you should be getting those diesel parts soon Roger, and that left over
Loonie coin. . Post office said 5 days or so, which is very quite for US to
Canada mail.........I figure a couple of weeks. I sent a post card from
Bella Coola BC to Sebastopol, Ca once......
in the late 80's........took at least 3 weeks for it to get there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Whittaker" <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
> dear bare -- bear and behr --
> there have been a few nights when i have gone to sleep and worried about
> bears
> one was on the nanimo lakes road
> but for the most part i am unconcerned ... and we are certainly not a tent
> on the ground in Polar Bear Country
> which this dead bear is ... and the picture of the tent on the ground
> shows
> --
> so --
> why am i thinking not me but thee --
> well no food out -- locked in closed cooler ...
> the night time movements of a bear are not toward people but away when
> possible (so say the bear experts)
> the amount of traffic on that road that night ... albeit a back woods road
> -- was unbelievable
> (i wont sleep there again)
> every person that went by honked and flashed their lights and yahooed
> i was more concerned about some idiot doing wierd stuff then i was about
> bears
> but i was also concerned about bears so i choose a place that was clearly
> not a parking spot for the sorts who toss garbage out
> and i looked around to make sure there was none there before we entrenched
> for the night
>
> it is certainly possible for a bear to gain access to where ever they
> decide
> to go --
>
> sleep well into the gentle night
> yours
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Michael Sullivan
> <sandwichhead@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Check these out! Something to think about in your pop-top.
>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/sandwichhead/BearAttack?authkey=qGobsHitGWo&feat=directlink
>>
>> --
>> Michael in San Antonio
>> 91GL AT 'Gringo'
>>
>
>
>
> --
> roger w
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