We did the northern part of skyline drive stopping for a hike on the Pineybranch trail. Among the many highlights were 3 black bears! The first was a cub that crossed the road in front of us. The second we nearly ran into on our hike - the trail had a ton of blackberry bushes along it and we startled an adult bear's lunch and he crashed away (thankfully) through the woods and I didn't get a picture, but Al spotted him a few minutes later on our walk - see below.
Our friends Matt and Nicole would have loved it.
On the way we stopped at Sperryville, had lunch and played a little wiffle ball - Al was incredible! ...well, at hitting, not pitching so much. She connected on everything.
Our berry eating friend
Iris on the AT where her Grandpa Milne walked through about 20 years ago.
Beautiful vistas
The last bear we saw on our way out
3 comments:
Wow, sounds like a great day. Thanks for the photos.
Mom
wow - can't believe you saw that many bears... my dad saw one near the cottage and we saw "evidence" on the cottage property.
here's a helpful link in case you see some again - thanks to brian for this link (: http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourinterview/2008/08/bear_awareness_1.html
great blog! keep it up (:
Love the B&W shot - it must feel so good to be liberated by Iris's exit from your belly!
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