..Exploring.....and discovering...

It always amazes me that when you get to this 'fairly' isolated spot...that people have been coming here for YEARS!! that there are so many left over bits that are still kicking around from times gone on LONG before----This spot was no different---I picked up this piece of wood because it looked like a gun..... and I told everyone not to be worried...I was on polar bear patrol!!

Then picked up the old pot lid?(i think?)...and that was my sheild to protect myself from possible bears charging.... (it was a very good thing that I DID not need to use these weapons to defend us...we in fact saw NO bears all day).

***although close to town (at the end of the road about 5kms out)...there HAS been bear activity---a bear has 'eaten' some food that was left in a tent(used for day trips out of town)...which isn't so good.... bc a fed bear is a 'happy' bear and that means it will probably come back...I've heard that from the prints it looks like a 'young' bear...which makes it even more dangerous!...fun times!! Also in the Park there has been spotting of 2 different bears...hmmmm I wonder if I'll see one?*** At the top of the hill(where I found the above 'weapons') was an old campsite....the rock circles show were tents would have been set up... and at one spot you could see wooden posts that were foundations for a building....wood and other random objects were all over this area.....

Random stuff gets moved around... from animals; wind; or snow.... these old barrel hoops were on top of a rock.....and a bird had made a nest there... not sure if you can see the 'baby' bird sitting in the middle of the hoops?! (behind the little rock)....

..an old stove..........

...a pot....that has definitely seen better days!