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Originally Posted by Loony Singer

"...Coming around the SE tip of Whortleberry Island, we saw what appeared to be another loon ahead. But as we got closer, it looked less and less like a loon. It was, in fact, a black bear, swimming along nicely. Quite a good sized one, too. We watched it til it landed on Whortleberry, where it clambered ashore and shook itself off like a (very, very large) dog..."

Nonetheless, black bears should always have a "swimming 'buddy'", just like many of us had at summer camp.