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Bear joins Florida beachgoers for a summer splash
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.
One man was just a few feet away from the bear as it started to swim up and shake the water off its fur.
In the video, a child is heard shouting the alert as the bear runs towards the sand.
“The crowd was in shock,” Barron said.
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. She said the bear safely made it to the shore and then ran off.
“I’ve lived here my whole live and have never seen anything like that before,“ she told CNN.
It’s unclear at this time where the bear came from or its current location. CNN has contacted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) for comment.
注释：
splash: V; n
1. v表示" 溅（湿）"，means "dash a liquid upon or against"，如：The waves splashed on the beach. 波浪飞溅到海滩上。
2. v表示" 报道"，means "report"，如：The story was splashed across the front page of the newspaper.这篇报道刊登在报纸头版显著位置。
3. n表示" 溅泼"，means "the act of scattering water about haphazardly"，如：He achieved a perfectly clean entry,and there is almost no splash.他的入水非常漂亮，几乎没有溅起水花。
中文简要说明：
夏天到了，不少民众喜欢到海边戏水消暑，不过身边若是出现庞然野生巨兽，恐怕会被吓得兴致全消。美国佛罗里达州著名的度假胜地德斯坦（Destin）周末就上演了「人熊同乐」的奇观，一只野生黑熊闯入人山人海的观光海滩，旁若无人地游起泳来，罕见的一幕被周遭民众拍下。
根据《纽约邮报》、美国有线新闻网（CNN）12日报导，南临墨西哥湾的德斯坦海滩周日（11日）挤满了避暑人潮，不少民众泡在水里、享受浪花的拍打时，海中突然出现一只黑影，四肢交替划着狗爬式，朝岸边不断前进。奇怪的身影引起民众议论纷纷，有人担心是鲨鱼，也有人怀疑是某人家的大狗，正在享受着游泳的乐趣。直到黑影愈游愈近，大家才赫然惊觉，那是一头小黑熊！
这头年幼的熊上岸后，不少民众吓得四散退开，也有人拿起手机拍摄这罕见的一幕，不过小黑熊似乎没当一回事，甩甩身上的海水后，立刻就钻进一旁的灌木丛，消失不见踪影。当地民众表示，在佛州住了一辈子，从来没有看过这样的事，有人则打趣说，小熊刚好「也来度假」。
对此，佛罗里达州鱼类及野生动物保护委员会（Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission，FWC）表示，野生熊出现在人来人往的海滩实属罕见，不过可能因为它相对年轻，经验不足才会误闯。事实上，这个季节正是小熊离开母亲，学习独立生活的时候，它可能正在探索未知的领域，或到附近的岛上寻找食物。
FWC告诉民众，如果看到熊，务必给予它空间，「不要尝试靠近，更别动手喂食。」在一般情况下，熊会自行离去。根据佛罗里达州政府统计，该州有超过4,000头黑熊。
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