Bear joins Florida beachgoers for a summer splash
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Three words a crowd of Florida beachgoers didn't expect to hear during their Sunday in the sun: 'It's a bear!'
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.
