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Swimming Bear
We have a little cabin at the head cl Clark Hollow, which some folks call Bean Hollow (more on that later)! It's at the end of the road, up against the Shenandoah National Park, just beyond the old Adaway Clark home place. Bears are relatively common there, as you would expect.
One evening last summer, Linda and I were sitting on the front porch of the cabin, having just finished dinner. It was probably 7:30 or 8:00There is a small frog pond about 30 yards from the mountain end of the cabin. Out of the woods surrounding the pond walked a black bear. My guess would be he was 200 pounds, maybe 225. He was full grown, but was still a bit lanky and long legged. It had been very hot that day and, for all the world, you would have thought this was a kid sneaking into some neighbors' swimming pool. >
The bear looked things over, then walked into the water, until he had to raise his head a bit to keep it out of the water. Then, he stood up on his- hind feet, and just like a kid, jumped into the deeper water in the middle of the pond. Then, he wpuld paddle a few strokes and stand up again, look around, and do it again, sometimes making a little "woof noise when he jumped, and sometimes raising his front legs up into the air before he jumped.
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