{"id":452,"date":"2011-11-10T17:29:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T01:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=452"},"modified":"2011-11-11T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:20:18","slug":"452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/452\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-453 alignleft\" title=\"Sleeping Bear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"picture of a black sleeping bear\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240-310x222.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240-135x96.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240-485x347.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240-660x473.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_2240.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Friends from England were visiting us here on Vancouver Island. On a beautiful crisp, clear Autumn day we took them for a hike on the Holt Creek Trail by the Cowichan River; a great place to enjoy the Fall colours. It was very beautiful but it didn&#8217;t smell too great because of the rotting salmon carcasses along the river bank. We encountered one dead salmon on the trail some distance from the river. This was a bit of a mystery. The salmon was too big to have been carried by a bird and it had been bitten but not eaten. The mystery was probably solved a few minutes later when we came upon a very large bear sleeping on a log. He\/she was apparently too full to finish the last fish and took a nap while digesting. We did not wake the bear, but photographed it through a zoom lens and then quietly continued along the trail, feeling very fortunate.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Scull<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John is a volunteer environmental educator and community conservation activist living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. He is a founding member of ICE. Visit <a title=\"http:\/\/www.naturecowichan.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naturecowichan.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.naturecowichan.net<\/a> to see what he does or <a title=\"Here\" href=\"http:\/\/members.shaw.ca\/jscull\/ecopsych.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> for links to some of his articles about ecology and ecopsychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends from England were visiting us here on Vancouver Island. 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