§ ...and "Bears"! Oh My!

I'll get to the part of seeing a bear in a bit.  But first, a bit of an intro to my morning walk....

When I left home to drive to the islands  the sky above was overcast...gray and high cloud cover. By the time I twisted around from Park Road 22 to Hwy 361, it became foggy! And it was foggy all morning. In fact it was soupier by the time I left three hours later. This is what I saw:

...looking across the pond [look closer, upper center; the white along the reed] and then zooming in -White Pelicans. And off to my left, in the pasture land, more white pelicans [at quite a distance, showing another zoomed in photo]

Both alligators, Boots and Bags, were out in the open today. And just a few feet away from the boardwalk!

Again, I used the zoom lens. Was he [Boots] watching me?

...leaving this area where the gators were, I walked across the refuge's street and found the mudflats were dried out, so I walked across the flats, going way back yonder to the open ponds:

Hidden in the misty air; treasures:

Since there was very little bird activity other than a seagull or two and one reddish egret, I turned back and headed toward the car. Then, I heard a killdeer calling. I could not find it. I stopped and listened closely. Scanning the ground cover; nothing. I turned my head over my shoulder and I saw this BEAR coming after me!!! It was huge, quite viscous looking. Its mouth was ajar. Tho silent, it was threatening....

[does the bush resemble a bear to you? At first glance, I was sure it was a critter!!!!!  Mother Nature is good at pulling pranks on me some days.]


...and then, leaving, this is what I drove home in all the way into Corpus! Visibility wasn't even a quarter of a mile!! The first photo is 'regular' off the camera; thru the windshield. There IS a car on the oncoming lane [look to the right of my watermark]...can you see it through the fog? The 2nd one is the same image, but cropped, so you can find the headlights of oncoming car.