A New Zealand kayaker caught on video being chased down a B.C. river by a hungry grizzly bear is finally sharing his story.
“I turned around and it was swimming at me,” kayaker Jonathan Smith said Thursday from his summer home in Whistler.
“Definitely, it was staring me in the eyes and wanted to eat me.”
Smith had only been in Canada for a couple of months on a work visa when he nearly became a snack for the young grizzly.
The encounter began when Smith was floating down the Elaho River near Squamish on Sunday as part of his job
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