Whistler, BC, 9 June 2011

It was a lazy morning. We are on holiday (vacation, to you Yanks) after all. After a late breakfast, we wandered into the village a little past noon, and found a recommended coffee place for lunch. It was full, so we went across the way to another (probably related) one.

After lunch we wandered past Rogers Chocolates and made a small purchase. The next planned stop was Lost Lake, a fairly short hike. On the way we saw a black bear on the main road into the village. It headed into the woods by where we planned to walk. An officer came and fired a couple of blanks or flares to scare it away. Of course, it headed in the direction we were going. So we headed back to the condo to get the car.

On the way out to Lost Lake, we saw no bears.

Stocking Lost Lake

One of the yearling Rainbow Trout

 

Lost Lake is a small lake with a swimming beach and picnic area. There were many tadpoles in the water near the edge at one point. As we were standing there, a rather large truck drove in and onto the beach. It was delivering yearling Rainbow Trout to stock the lake. So we stayed around to watch that very interesting process.


We continued our exploration by heading further out Highway 99. We stopped at one of the area's golf courses, but did not play. The trail from Lost Lake goes out there, so we walked a little way on it. There was a floatplane terminal on the lake there.

On the way back to the village, we turned in to one area, with many very large houses. We saw a couple of cars stopped ahead of us where there were two black bears feeding on the roadside vegetation, mostly dandelions. One soon wandered off, but the other stayed, happily munching away and ignoring all the spectators. We stayed a while to watch.

Don't mind me. I'm having lunch.

After being satisfied that we had more than enough pictures of the bear, we headed back to the village and "home" to our condo.