Tough saying on the distance,because I wasn't paying much attention as I was trying to soak it all in and do him some justice with pics. I was gunning a Canon 1.6x crop body DSLR with a 100-400m L attached,pard was shooting fullframe Canon DSLR and 500mm F/4 L with 1.4x TC attached. We had him at or near 100yds I'd say in retrospect.

Spotted him from over a mile away,as we'd just completed a sneak on an absolute monster Booner MuskOx Bull that traveled out on the ice pack the Spring or Winter prior and found himself stranded on an island after the ice melted. I never could get any killer pics of him as he had us pinpointed,the wind was wrong and the boat was in a tough place with the water going away.

He's a toad.



Actually had my Leica LRF in tow and I was glassing with it when I spied the bedded Bear. As we approached,I never hit him with the laser,as I was trying to fill up an 8gig card with him. A couple days prior the boys had him swimming in open water and got a rather nice look at him from the boat and that's a trip I'm sorry that I missed.

I'm standing on the ice pack here and the island the MuskOx was on,is to my 1 O'clock...the Bear was East of him a coupla miles.



With the MuskOx being miles from mainland,I still can't believe that Bear or another,hadn't slicked him up...as we saw 5 Polar Bears in proximity that evening,all schlepping different islands.

Should be lots of critters mulling about this hitch and I think I'll bring my big camera bag so I'll have the works with me.