bears!

In Victoria (and Vancouver) scattered around the city are various bears, which are painted by local artists. For what? I don't know. Tourist trap, most likely.

So, being from a tourist town myself, I take great pleasure in being an annoying tourist when I visit other tourist towns. Which led to taking photos of all the bears and having people give me strange looks. Excellent.

While I wasn't ambitious enough to find ALL the bears, here's a smattering of them:










I like to call them the "word!" bears because they all look like they're holding up their paws to say "word up, homebear."

We also managed to find a "fudge bear":


I imagine it would be quite difficult to get fudge from inside a bear.