On June 3, a freighter on Lake Superior had a little visitor that morning as a Black Bear cub, got tired of swimming and latched on to the vessel’s draft board, in Two Harbors. Later the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reportedly came and helped him ashore.
Sailor Keith Baker posted on Facebook that the “little visitor” swam over from the shore near Two Harbors and latched onto the draft board of the Cason J. Callaway.
The watchman told Baker that the cub swam over to the Callaway from a vacant ore dock.
“He grabbed on and wasn’t letting go,” Baker said.
Posting photos on Facebook of the bear playing with the Callaway’s draft board, Baker noted that the Callaway’s “little visitor” stayed on the board for a while and seemed like he was taking a rest.
“He’s got that ‘I ain’t going back in that cold water’ look,” Baker wrote on Facebook, joking that getting a midship draft reading was difficult because “it’s a bit hairy at the moment.”
The cub eventually let go of the draft board and swam back to shore as the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources arrived on the scene, said Baker, who regularly posts photos of his maritime travels on Facebook under the name “Great Lakes Sailor/Keith Baker.”
Source: ”STORM WARRIOR” Great Lakes Sailor/ Keith Baker on Facebook
