Angela Laryea bubbles with excitement when she speaks about an animal she saw in the North Shuswap recently.

She was heading home to Lee Creek from work in Scotch Creek in the early evening of May 20 when she spotted a bear.

An unusual bear.

It was maybe 20 to 30 feet away and it was white, a bit shaggy, with a black head.

91裸聊视频淲hen I first saw it I thought it was a sheep,91裸聊视频� she said. When it turned around her first thought was that it was covered in snow, but she quickly realized the impossibility of that notion.

91裸聊视频淲hen I think about it, he looked dirty, that91裸聊视频檚 why I thought he was rolling in the snow.91裸聊视频�

Then she thought, maybe the bear was covered in pollen.

But no, not that either.

She said her car was quite close to the animal before it sauntered off.

It was a white bear with a black head.

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Laryea said she was told it was a Spirit Bear, which she didn91裸聊视频檛 know existed. She said she91裸聊视频檚 lived in the area for 30 years and has never seen anything like it.

She91裸聊视频檚 been telling everyone she knows about the bear and, finally, on June 1, someone else she knows saw it.

91裸聊视频淢y good friend91裸聊视频檚 daughter took that (photo) and couldn91裸聊视频檛 wait to share it with me as I91裸聊视频檝e been telling the world.91裸聊视频�

Laryea said the bear in the photo had shed somewhat since she last saw it, but she91裸聊视频檚 assuming it91裸聊视频檚 the same bear.

She hopes she91裸聊视频檒l have the good fortune of seeing it again.

Although initial calls around the area and to the conservation office haven91裸聊视频檛 yet produced further information on such a bear, the internet91裸聊视频檚 bear.org uses the name Spirit Bear and Kermode bear interchangeably. Those bears, however, are pictured as all white and it states only about 100 of them remain. Laryea said she91裸聊视频檚 seen a Kermode bear before and the one she saw looks different.

91裸聊视频淢ost Spirit Bears live on Princess Royal and Gribbell Islands along the rainforest coast of British Columbia,91裸聊视频� states the bear.org website. 91裸聊视频淭hey are considered a subspecies of black bears called Kermode bears (Ursus americanus kermodeii). About 20 percent of the bears on those islands are white; the rest are black. On the mainland, the percentage of white bears drops off drastically with distance from those islands.91裸聊视频�

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