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When I left us in yesterday’s blog, I had checked into the hotel, met the horses in the corral. Then, I checked in on Facebook and posted a few pictures before getting ready to head back out for the late afternoon/evening drive.

First stop was the Wishing Well, where I saw these White Suckers spawning.  They were very busy.

I was heading back north and pulled back into Grayling Lake.  It never hurts to keep checking the same placed – because you never know.

There actually wasn’t anything exciting there, so I took basically the same pictures, but at a different time of the day with different cloud cover.

This bear sighting was quite a distance from the road, but I just kept snapping away.  I did see some cubs, but they didn’t make it into any of my pictures, and it seems a bit different to have two adult bears together here.  The cubs didn’t appear often and didn’t stay in view very long as they raced back under cover.

Then – north of Moon Lake was a Moose, who wasn’t interested in having her photo taken.

This White-tailed Deer was quite cooperative and kept her pose while I zoomed in a bit between pictures.  Of course, it is possible that she thought I hadn’t seen her – but I did talk to her and thank her for posing.

These 2 White-tailed Deer were together and they each posed for individual photos.

Common Mergansers at the Wishing Well Road area.

Red-necked Grebe in the same area as the Mergansers.

Time for a 2nd visit with this Bear. She was a little further out from the bush at the beginning, but after a few minutes she disappeared again.

I kept driving north and then south and ended up back with this bear again, and this time was different.  She lay down, looking into the bush and then I heard sounds of running.  I saw little black balls of fur run up a tree inside the bush but couldn’t get a picture.  Then they came out.

After Mom & the cubs disappeared back into the bush, I left again to check out the sunset at Spruces and I was just in time.

Back onto the road the the Momma Bear was in her spot, with the cubs hidden again and I didn’t stay long.  A very short distance down the road, I met this bear.  This was the only usable picture I could get since the sun was down now and any movement caused blur.  I didn’t see any cubs, but I know they can be easily and quickly hidden.

Another short distance down the road but on the opposite side was another Momma Bear with 3 cubs.  One cub is very visible, another cub is the black spot in between the 2 and I don’t know where the 3rd one is.

While I was watching, a motorcycle drove past and suddenly 3 cubs were running for the bushes, with Momma behind them.

What an exciting evening!  I then headed back to my room as I expected to be up early the next morning.

To be continued . . . .