We left Belhaven early, there was no need to go ashore. We made our way to the Alligator River Canal. With a name like that you would expect to see....alligators, but instead we saw a baby black bear. We saw something swimming across the canal with its head above water a few hundred yards ahead of us. The canal couldn't have been more than 200 yards wide. Through the binoculars we could see that it was a bear, and he kept turning his head to look at us while he was swimming. Once he reached the shore he ran full speed for the cover of the trees, but before he disappeared he turned to watch us go by. It was very cool, I am still wondering where "momma bear" was!
In other wildlife news today...I killed the worlds largest green head fly! It was so big that I had to take his photo to remember him by.
We got to South Lake anchorage by 4:30, but we had to navigate through crab pot city to get there! There was such a concentrated amount of crab pots that it was like driving a school bus through a mini cooper slalom course. It might have been easier if our beam wasn't 23 ft. Chris is still cursing the crab pot fishermen!
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