After a long 20 minutes, they got bored and ambled off in another direction and we resumed our journey. I still tease her about that close encounter with wildlife.
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True story. In 1968 when I was 27 years old, a friend and I were traveling through the same area. When we encountered Bison close to the road we stopped and I got out to film them close up. I walked toward them and was some 30 yards away from our VW camper and 50 yards away from them when they decided to charge me. Just made back to the camper before they were up on the road in front of us. Lesson learned!
Wow! You are lucky you got no closer and had a 20 yard head start. They don’t mean to be mean, they are just stupid and can see almost anything as a potential threat as pointed out in the post previous to yours.