I went up to my BC cabin in September. It had been a year since I had been up. My BC cabin is mostly glass–36 windows in 600 sq. ft. and most of them are big panes of glass. It has double, full view, French doors on it. There were smudges on the doors when I got there. I washed them away but they kept reappearing.
One night, after dark, I was lying on my couch reading with my led headlamp, when I see something big and black brush up against the double glass doors. Sometimes when my neighbors come up, their dog will come over to see me. Thinking it was their dog, I opened the door and said, “Kobi?â€? What ever it was ran away which made me feel a little uneasy. In the morning, I went to see if my neighbors were up–they weren’t.
The next evening, before it got dark, I hear something walking around on my deck. I looked out to see a black bear moseying up to the front of my cabin and then sitting down against my cabin like it was my dog.
Then it started sniffing around my kayak. I wanted to watch the bear but I didn’t want the bear to feel comfortable around my cabin so I opened the door and yelled at it. It went down the stairs of my deck.
It was a very high tide and the water was close to the stairs. I couldn’t figure out were the bear went. I looked but it just disappeared. If it had gone into the water, it seems like I would have heard a splash. If it had gone through the brush, it seems like I would have heard the brush rattling. I started to suspect it might be living under my cabin. But, I was afraid to look because it might feel cornered and attack.
I brought a bunch of rocks inside so I could lob them at the bear if it came back, but it never did. I never did look under the cabin.
