Wildlife encounters.

<blockquote> I did have a lion charge me at the zoo once...that scared to s&amp;%t right out of me!!!</blockquote>That reminds me of the time at a zoo when my ex was staring through the glass at a gorilla who apparently didn't like to be stared at.<br>The gorilla came as close to the glass as he could get and slammed his fist against it right where my ex's head was. It was pretty scary at the time, butyears later I wished the glass had broke. <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/devil.gif" alt="image"><br>

now Andrea, thats not very nice....<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image">

Wow!!!!! Those are AWSOME pictures of the dear!!!!! Great stories. Andrea, Tooooooo Funnnnyyyy!!!!!!<br><br>Rich

Two weeks ago, I was completely startled to see a doe that was larger than the bucks in Karen's pictures, in the back yard of a neighbour's home. Itwas around 3:30pm, which is completely odd for deer to be out and about at that hour, much less the size of the doe. I have never seen one that big thatwasn't in the bed of a pickup truck on the way to the processor.<br><br>A little background... when we moved out here, we were in the boonies. My high school was eight miles east of us, in a little burg of under 11,000 people. Thatlittle burg is now closing in on 100,000 city population - not including their metro area. Our area got swallowed up by the urban sprawl years ago. We aresurrounded by highways on three sides and nothing but apartment complex construction on the fourth and I'm sure more highway soon to follow.<br><br>It's not uncommon to see deer out here, but sadly it's usually on the side of the road. How a doe that size managed to get that large, much less end upin our area, is fantastic. Seeing her at 3:30 in the afternoon was another rare sight, considering that the neighbour whose yard it was in has a hyper ParsonRussell Terrier and a huge Boxer and neither saw the doe and came out to bark at it. I was completely dazed by this. Even if I had a camera in my hands, Iwould have been too enthralled to remember to take a picture. The mental picture will be with me for a long time, at least.<br><br>Like LA, we also have urban coyotes. It's kinda cool, but there have been so many cases of rabid bats found this year and the number of other rabid animals(especially raccoons) it does cause concern.<br><br>At least I still have our three species of geckos, green "chameleon" anoles and snakes when neighbours call me to come remove them. I don't thinkthat they'll be calling me when they find deer in their yards, though.

Awesome stories everyone! I also love the pictures of all the bucks. One morning about 5:00 a.m. I was leaving to go four wheeling with some friends. I loadedmy truck the night before so all I had to do was back out of the drive way and head for the hills. Well my wife ask me to take some things out to the mailboxbefore I left. After putting the mail in the box I turned to go towards my truck and noticed a lump in the road behind my truck. I walked over to see what itwas. It's still dark at this time so I had no clue of what it was just yet. I gave it a slight nudge and to my surprise it rolled back toward me resistingmy pokes. I thought it might be a fawn so I picked the little bundle up and it's long slinky legs dropped down from under it. If I hadn't walked to themailbox for my wife the fawn would of been run over when I backed out of the drive way.<br>It wasn't much bigger then my foot. Our cat was much bigger then the fawn but not as tall.<br>I ended up taking it to a local deer farm that cares for wounded or abanded deer.<br>I love this topic.<br>Tim<br><img alt="image" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/beachbomb/bambi1.jpg"><p><br></p><img alt="image" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/beachbomb/bambi9.jpg"><p><br></p><img alt="image" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/beachbomb/bambi10.jpg"><p><br></p>

Tim,<br>That's a really cute, young fawn there. I'm glad you turned it in to people that know how to care for them. Unfortunately you probably should haveplaced it off the side of the road a ways for the mother to find it. Many people take in fawns thinking they were abandoned or lost. You may have saved it fromgetting hit though. I don't know the traffic in your area.<br>Great pics.<br>Paul

here's a little fellow we encounter will diving ,hes a Puget sound king crab the big ones can reach 10 to 12 lbs ,add 1/2 pound butter WoW!<br>murray<br><img id="photo" title="dive pics 437.jpg" alt="dive pics 437.jpg" src="http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/fce2543cc01cedd3898bf800d97cb7768a80280.jpg">

<font color="#0000FF" size="4">Tim I remember when you first told us that story. Thank God your wife needed something mailed! What a cute little fawn. Iwouldn't have wanted to let it go. Just too cute.<br><br><br>~Karen</font>

finally I've gotten a chance to post some of the pics from my last anniversary... kinda off topic.. and some might remember the sunset pic I posted... butas our trip was coming to a close we finally caught the local wildlife park on a day they were open for a lookee-lou or yokel or two... enjoy the show!<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/015.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/012.jpg" alt="image"><p><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/013.jpg" alt="image"><br>the Oregon coast... ahhhhhhh can't you smell that breeze! now for the wild life... speaking of deer...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/035.jpg" alt="image"><br>this little bugger kinda creeped me out...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/036.jpg" alt="image"><br><br>here's more of the 'pack' will elaborate more little later...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/038.jpg" alt="image"><br>now for the star feature of this place (if you ask me) just call him whitey!<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/039.jpg" alt="image"><br>Albino Bengal Tiger if I remember right... they'd let you come in and sit down with this little critter...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/047.jpg" alt="image"><br>now for the next star of the show... Mrs. Brew... my lovely assistant... I'm still trying to talk her into joining this family... still thinks we'renuts!<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/056.jpg" alt="image"><br>more of the little star...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/057.jpg" alt="image"><br>really digs his 'bottle'<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/055.jpg" alt="image"><br>I got to sit with him too... but no one wants to see that... cant remember this next bugger's title... very alert I might say... we were all'lunch' to him...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/058.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/059.jpg" alt="image"><br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/061.jpg" alt="image"><br>this one reminds me of a couple of guys I know...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/074.jpg" alt="image"><br>this one a few of you have seen at a distance... but did you know they looked like this?!?!<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/114.jpg" alt="image"><br>think this was another form of raccoon... also mighty friendly with his bottle...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/115.jpg" alt="image"><br>albino sloth... trippy looking fer sure...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/117.jpg" alt="image"><br>just yer friendly Aussie saying... "HEY... whatcha got in dem pockets?!?!"<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/122.jpg" alt="image"><br>more of the flock...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/132.jpg" alt="image"><br>these ones were walking thru... bleetin' blaatin and just generally making a ruckus among us...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/133.jpg" alt="image"><br>now for the BIG BOYS!!!!!!! guess I came a bit too late... after feeding time and all...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/137.jpg" alt="image"><br>not sure if this one was eying me for a meal... or a scratch between the ears... I'm leaning toward the latter...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/141.jpg" alt="image"><br>this one followed me and just wouldnt let me walk away... this one was a toughie to leave...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/145.jpg" alt="image"><br>ol' Leo was feeling a touch more photogenic for this one...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/148.jpg" alt="image"><br>money shot!!!!!!!!!!!<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/149.jpg" alt="image"><br>lastly... little bit of wildlife in the parking lot as we leave... didnt realize the were legal to keep as pets... but wadda I know...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/154.jpg" alt="image"><br>hope you've enjoyed the show.. this place is a little outside of Bandon... worth the bux if you can... over and out!<br><br><br></p>

<p>oops... doubled up... might as well post another one I forgot to put up...<br><img src="http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/brewharriah/152.jpg" alt="image"><br>getttin' awfully close to 5K... feel a contest coming on!!</p>