The big, bad...

Posted by Viewfinder (Bradenton, FL, United States) on 1 August 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

Wolf. Timber wolf, to be exact.

This is not an animal you expect to find on a dune in panhandle Florida. But in early July at our panhandle vacation cottage, sure enough, this big guy showed up. Huffing and puffing.

However, not to worry, he didn't come to blow the house down. The man who owns the cottage keeps this wolf as a pet. He was walking his wolf along the beach that day. On their way back to the car, the wolf noticed us excited tourista paparazzi-types waiting to snap his picture.

So all shy-like, wolfie took a detour from the boardwalk and sort of strolled up across the dune to avoid us, then met up with his owner at the car and they drove away.

But my zoom lens did its work anyway, and voila! This image in all its glory...

Nikon D50
1/640 second
F/6.0
450 mm (35mm equiv.)

dune
florida
wolf
panhandle