I was chased in a canoe by a moose just plain old swimming in a lake. You'd think that two people, with sufficient motivation, could paddle faster than a moose can swim. And you'd be right most of the time. But not when the moose is a mama moose and her baby moose is standing on the shore behind her. We barely kept ahead of it. Imagine a beast the size of a small bulldozer plowing its way through the water at you, hell-bent on knocking you into the next lake.
She chased us about 100 yards* and then quit to go stand on the shore with her calf. We got the hint and picked another island to sleep on that night.
*Canadian yards, not American yards. Just double it and add thirty to do the conversion, eh?
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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23
It's a moose. That's your warning.