They cautiously got on the canoe. Hong Tao and Pawei each held an oar. Hong Tao sat on the bow and paddled from the left, while Pawei sat on the stern and paddled from the right. Their cooperation was pretty good and they finally drove the boat away from the dock.
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In fact, you don’t paddle hard at all. The boat rides on the flow of the river and rides on the water as briskly as leaves. The only thing needed is to use the paddles to control the direction of the bow. In this regard, Hong Tao is better than riding a horse.
Now that he is good at fishing, he still needs to row a small boat to make a nest when fishing in any reservoir, so rowing is not difficult for Hong Tao.
This river is called the Venetian River. The river is quite wide, but the water is not deep and the current is very gentle. The only thing you need to pay attention to is that there are many shoals below the water surface. But with Austin leading the way, everyone only needs to follow his boat.
become.
Starting from Pivonac, driving along the river for more than 20 kilometers is the mouth of the Venetike River. However, Hong Tao and the others do not have to go so far. The river mouth is already frozen at this time. There is a lake more than ten kilometers away from the river mouth.
It is located in a shallow shoal, where the river is only half a meter deep. It is a place where polar bears prefer to hunt. They will wait for beavers to appear by the river here.
It’s not easy to talk about polar bears. Although they eat everything, even tree bark and hay, their main food is seals. Without the fat-rich seal meat to supplement their diet, they can’t get enough food.
Without enough heat, mother bears cannot successfully conceive and give birth to cubs. Therefore, every winter, a large number of polar bears travel long distances from the north to the Hudson Bay in search of food.
Why do you have to come to the Hudson Bay? Because there are a large number of migrating sturgeons here in winter, and the seals will follow these fish schools to the Hudson Bay, and the polar bears will chase the seals. This is a
Very clear food chain relationships.
"Don't smoke or open any food. These guys have a very keen sense of smell. They can smell the canned meat you eat from several kilometers away when the wind is downwind. They are very hungry. If they smell these smells, then we will be miserable.
"It's over." When the three small boats stopped near the shoal Austin mentioned, Austin explained in detail the precautions for watching polar bears. To put it bluntly, the polar bears are too hungry, let's not
mess with it.
After waiting for a long time, no polar bear was seen. When Harrison found a brown bear wandering back and forth on the other side of the river, Austin ordered the boat to sail. Due to the existence of this brown bear, polar bears would not come to this area.
I don't know why this brown bear didn't go to sleep in a tree hole in the winter, but came out and wandered around.
After drifting for another 2 kilometers, the river in front seemed to suddenly disappear, replaced by a vast white ice field, where the river water and sea water were frozen together, making it impossible to tell which is the river and which is the sea, and the entire Hudson Bay
The sea surface will freeze. It will not thaw until after March.
"Shh, over there, there's a polar bear over there." Hong Tao and Pawei were discussing whether the polar bear could be killed with one shot, when Austin suddenly pointed in the distance to silence everyone.
"Hey. It's looking at us. It doesn't think we are seals, right?" Hong Tao held the binoculars and saw a polar bear on the ice on the left. At this time, he also discovered these small boats. They were twisting.
The little triangular head is looking this way.
"Come on, let's go up. You'd better follow my footsteps. There are many holes made by polar bears on the ice here, and some of them may be covered with snow. Don't fall in." Austin directed everyone.
The boat leaned against the river bank, then he took out his knife, cut off a tree branch, and held it in his hand as a pathfinding pole.
"Look, everyone, this is an ice hole, follow me." After walking a few hundred meters on the ice, Austin hit the ice with a tree stick a few times, and a thin layer of ice was broken open.
, an ice hole with a diameter of more than a foot was exposed below, look
What I said in Austin is correct. Even if there is a gun on this ice, it is still very dangerous. If you are not familiar with it, you will have to fall into the ice hole if you don't get killed by a bear. In this temperature, even if you can climb up,
It would take less than 20 minutes and he would freeze to death.
"Why do polar bears dig ice caves?" This time the question was no longer asked by Hong Tao, but by Liu Xiaomei.
"They capture seals in this ice cave. They will make many ice holes on the ice, and then lie down at the entrance of the cave to guard. Once a seal comes out to breathe, it will be a delicious meal." Hong Tao can be considered a chance to show off.
, he had seen on TV the knowledge about polar bears catching seals.
"Tch, you think polar bears are like lazy people like you, but you didn't think so. You lie down on the side and wait for me to take a look." Who knew that instead of making Liu Xiaomei admire his erudition, Hong Tao's words had the opposite effect.
, the beautiful lady pointed to the ice cave and planned to let Hong Tao try it to see if he could wait until the seals came out.
"Don't pretend to understand if you don't understand. If you don't believe me, ask Austin to see if what I'm saying is right." Hong Tao has always been a man of reason but not of others. As long as there is a question about the truth, no matter who it is, he must understand it.
"Hong Tao is right. This is how polar bears catch seals, but it's not easy. Sometimes they can't catch one for several days." Austin and the others watched Hong Tao and Liu Xiaomei bickering until
After asking him about it, he stood up and gave Hong Tao a fair word.
"You know what's so great about it." Liu Xiaomei didn't feel guilty at all because of her error in judgment. Not to mention that many women are always unreasonable, and she is the representative of this kind of woman.
"Look, that guy stood up, is he trying to warn us?" Boss Liu kept holding his binoculars to look at the polar bear.
"It's okay, it's making holes in the ice. Let's stay away from it. This is its territory, lest it can't catch the seal and blame us." Austin glanced at it and signaled that there was no need to be nervous.
"Holy shit, this is so powerful. What the hell is this? This is a pile driver." Hong Tao saw the polar bear standing upright on its hind legs like a human, and then slamming down on the ice with its front paws.
, repeated back and forth until a hole was made in the ice surface dozens of centimeters behind.
"Should we move on? Or should we wait here to see how it kills seals?" Austin asked for everyone's opinions.
"I choose to stay here." Hong Tao quickly expressed his attitude. These foreigners are all the same. When he asks you for your opinion, you'd better be honest and say it quickly. They are really not being polite. Once they make a decision,
Then no one can regret it easily.
"I'd better take pity on Tao's ass and choose to stay." Pawei is worthy of being Hong Tao's friend and the first one to stand up and support him.
"I want to go for a walk in the distance, maybe I can meet a lost bear!" Liu Xiaomei is also worthy of being Hong Tao's mortal enemy. As long as Hong Tao supports it, she basically opposes it.
"Ms. Liu, your idea is too scary. It is very dangerous to come into contact with cubs in polar bear territory. The mother bear will tear us all apart immediately. Moreover, there are no cubs in this season. They usually only come into contact with us in March."
Production." Austin prefers Hong Tao, but because of his status, he cannot support Hong Tao explicitly and can only tell the truth and make sense.
Most popular, everyone decided to stay here and observe the polar bear's hunting process. Because there is no transportation, if you walk too far on the ice, it will not only be very tiring but also very dangerous, in case you catch up with those who are not good-tempered and hungry.
If the polar bear has a belly, the only option is to shoot them.
Although Austin is an Indian, and they are allowed to hunt polar bears in the reservation, their people still respect animals very much, so any hunting that is not for survival is considered a shame by their people.
Everyone found a high bulging ice wall as a shelter from the wind, took out a few animal furs as blankets, spread them on the ice to keep out the cold, then sat on the furs, held up binoculars and cameras, and started staring at the other side.
Polar bear in shaved ice hole.
This polar bear is huge, probably 3 meters tall when standing. It has milky white fur that looks very elegant under the sunlight. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
