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6th January 20, 10:05 AM
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La Brea tar pits
I took my grandkids to the La Brea tar pits on their visit here. I had my daughter take a picture in front of the cave bear. It's a large bear. I did recently see a show called "Fear Island". It's a nature channel documentary about an island in Alaska where the bears are rumored to be huge. The naturalists got the required permission from the tribe which has control of it and found that the bear called grandfather did exist. They found shoulder rubs at 11 feet on a tree and a trip camera caught a bear whose shoulder height was over 6 feet. It wasn't however a cave bear as was rumored but a hybrid polar/grizzly. 
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6th January 20, 02:51 PM
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Very cool!
A funny aside is that here in SoCal we have a city called Brea and tourists will drive around looking for the tar pits (which are not in Brea, but in Los Angeles).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brea,_California
Brea, by the way, means "tar" so "the La Brea tar pits" means "the the tar tar pits".
Last edited by OC Richard; 6th January 20 at 02:55 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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6th January 20, 10:54 PM
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 Originally Posted by OC Richard
Very cool!
A funny aside is that here in SoCal we have a city called Brea and tourists will drive around looking for the tar pits (which are not in Brea, but in Los Angeles).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brea,_California
Brea, by the way, means "tar" so "the La Brea tar pits" means "the the tar tar pits".
It seems to me my son has competed in Brea. The tar tar pits reminds me of an ancestor of my wife. He was odin wotan. (I trust it to the 7 hundreds before that it seems suspect)
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