I spent some time on the DEW line, exactly 1500 miles north of Halifax, arriving in the summer, I took to walking a lot, the guys all told me to watch out for polar bears, my head was on a swivel for three months, turns out I was wasting my time looking and worrying, they don't come in off the ice until September. One day I took the garbage down to the dump in a three ton stake truck, I jumped out, dropped the tailgate and then noticed the largest bear you would ever want to see, foraging in the garbage, not twenty feet from me. I jumped back in the truck and called the guys on the CB radio to come with their cameras. The bear stood up and stared me right in the eye through the truck window. I locked the doors. I don't know what I thought he might do.


CC#31 Do bears have opposable thumbs?





I have a niece that went to Churchill with her husband in the army back in the sixties. One day she put the twin boys , Dana & Dale out to play in their snowsuits. They were soon back at the door saying doggie, doggie. She told them to go play, as she closed the door she noticed the huge polar bear not far away. No TV up there then, so they were always underfoot, they got their fresh air through an open window, a not too widely opened window.