I had not been to Wayfarer’s Park without Karl. I wanted to go as the wildflowers on the path are 1-2 weeks ahead of my woods. But it was the one place that I hadn’t been able to go alone.

Today, I had some errands in Bigfork and decided that I would at least drive through with Bear and if he seemed interested we’d go for a short walk by the lake.

He was interested :)!

I let him pick where he wanted to go, curious to see what interested him and particularly if he’d want to go in the water.

He didn’t go right to the water, but after exploring the shore paths, he walked right in.

He drank a bit, walked along the edge, had another drink and we puttered around on the rocky beach…lots of good smells. A woman with her 2 young granddaughters were exploring and Bear happily dispensed kisses all around and stood quietly for the girls to pet him.

I had a few tough moments, but mostly it was a joyful time of seeing Bear enjoy a place that Karl and I so enjoyed.

A video…it is probably not going to happen often, but I do want to document some of the training and as I looked at this video, I realized that Bear is doing much better than I. My commands are not consistent and they are not timed properly :(

There were 4 whitetail deer that I could see, maybe more that I could not. They were 100 yards off.

Oh…this video and all outside photos of Bear have been taken with my phone: HTC Thunderbolt.