May 23-24, 2005

May 23-24, 2005

On the third day of fishing, we returned to the houseboat for lunch to find our garbage scattered all over the beach and the porch screen ripped. The smell of last-night’s BBQ leftovers must have been irresistible. We wondered what animal had done it. While we were eating lunch, a black bear causally walked up the gangplank! He wanted seconds! We chased him away and cleaned up the garbage. A hungry bear is hard to discourage though. We could still see him in the woods above and he came back again as soon as we left for our afternoon fishing.