In Alaska, we didn't need to say, let's spice up our date nights. Mother nature was sure to keep them exciting for us. On this particular day we ventured out to go berry picking at Arctic Valley. We'd heard blueberries were ripe for the picking and the drive there was beautiful. When we were about 5 miles away from our destination, we saw a car stopped on the road up ahead. As we got closer, this is what we saw:
We were in a safe SUV, so we decided to venture closer for better pictures. Luckily Jason let me keep the windows rolled up as I snapped away at the black bear. I can see how tourists can get into trouble because the bear really just looked like a big dog. Very deceiving!!
We were happy to see that the place where we were picking the berries had low vegetation so we would be able to see any bears coming our way.
We are pretty sure these are actually crow berries. They were a bit tart but would be great in a pie.
The bushes were very low lying. After an hour of picking berries we had enough for Ellie to eat for breakfast. No pie from this venture! We now know why blueberries are the price they are at the store:)
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