Three words a crowd of Florida beachgoers didn’t expect to hear during their Sunday in the sun: “It’s a bear!”
A bear was spotted splashing through the Gulf of Mexico before running up the shore at Destin, a coastal city in northwestern Florida’s Panhandle region, just before noon local time on June 11. “We had been watching him several minutes come in from out pretty far,“ beachgoer Chris Barron told CNN. “Most people didn’t realize it was a bear.” Barron took out his phone and started recording as multiple people were walking through the ocean.
Florida resident Steffani Saddler was on a boat returning from scuba diving when she too spotted the unfamiliar figure in the water. “We couldn’t tell what it was so we turned the boat to get closer and that’s when we realized it was a bear,” Saddler told CNN. The bear is seen floating in the water, slowly drifting to the shore covered in blue umbrellas as people enjoy a day at the beach. “I guess he’s on vacation too,” Saddler joked.
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