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Chances with wolves

"We won't see wolves," he says early in our voyage into the Great Bear Rainforest on Canada's west coast. No problem; most of our small group have come for the scenery and the bears, either grizzlies or the white spirit bears found nowhere else in the world.

Wolves thrive here too, but they're elusive and rarely seen. So as we leave the ship on our third evening and putter to shore in Zodiacs, bears are top of mind.

The mouth of the Kynoch River is about 600km northwest of Vancouver, within the Fiordland Recreation Area, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest where glaciers gouged deep inlets long ago and granite walls tower 1000m above the water. This is prime grizzly habitat.

During my visit in late June, the grasses and sedges in the river's estuary form a brilliant green carpet. Bears spend their days digging up roots and tearing off shoots while waiting for salmon to return to the river in late summer.

"Don't point if you see one," naturalist Briony Penn warns. "Your arm looks like a rifle and they've seen that before, sadly."

Instead, Penn shows us how to signal a bear; she puts her fists on top of her head to look like ears.

A few years ago, a conservation group bought the guide-outfitter's licence for this part of the coast, abruptly ending bear-hunting by foreigners. Since then, bears have become bolder, no longer hiding from people, Smith says.

"They're not the scary animal that Hollywood would like you to believe," he adds.

Smith has been sailing this coast as owner of Maple Leaf for the past 10 years. Earlier, he guided us ashore where we explored the estuary, saw grizzly tracks, examined tufts of fur caught on tree bark and poked at scat with a stick. We've seen everything but a bear.

So when a deer races out of the estuary pursued by a black and tawny wolf, we're gobsmacked. A wolf? This wasn't on the agenda.

Of course, there's no agenda when you're in the wild, and Maple Leaf is not like a cruise ship with a set itinerary. All Smith ever promises is to put us "in the path of magic and let it happen".

"Run deer, run!" I urge under my breath, not quite sure why I'm siding with the deer.

Wolves are efficient killers but soon the wide-eyed deer reaches deep water and swims safely to the far side of the inlet. The wolf gives up but instead of disappearing into the bush, he paces the rocky shoreline for several minutes. I imagine he is scowling.

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They have some cute, maybe even sexy prints (leopard, butterflies) although I bought all mine before they had prints! I would recommend the Original Nursing Bra in the Double Plus style for early nursing, once my breasts evened out in milk production the Plus style worked too. They do have a new bra called the Exquisite Nursing Bra which is really pretty, it doesn’t come in a 40 though. I would call their customer service and see if maybe you may fit in the 38 with a larger cup size!

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