Kamchatka in Northern Russia land of the brown bear

Land of fire and ice
Where geyser fountains pour
Boiling springs, hot water falls
Hot mud and so much more

Dead sulphurous lakes
Canyons and ravines
So much thermal energy
A tourist walk way through it all
Devoid of all machines

Perhaps the greatest Nature Reserve
The world has ever seen
Rivers packed with shoals of fish
Are a truly wondrous scene

And all of this from opal rocks
And mists up to the sky
And no one luring bears out of this place
So they can die

Nobody ever hunts here
Though there are many bears
Many families of brown bears live here
And so it compares

Favourably with anywhere
There is never hunting here
They come with their cameras
And the bears don’t live in fear

Of anyone, the habitat is as wild as it can be
They have no fear of mankind
Its where you come to see
Bears in their wild wilderness
Doing what bears do
Living raising their families
For them Nature is true

Catching fish and biting trees
Foraging for all
Kamchatka Bears are smart and strong
And very very tall

They live by a routine they do
Nothings left to chance
They are into grass and berries
And On their hind legs they will dance

Box a while and wade into the water
Sensing fish
Their eyesight isn’t all that hot
But they soon can fill a dish

They really are intelligent
They walk near to the pools
But never ever burn themselves
They are anything but fools

The bears are very clever and learn things
Very fast
So quick they are at catching fish
Their life is one big blast

They hibernate for half the year
But the other half they are
Roaming in the gloaming
And tend to be the star

Under the ground is hottest
Thats why the walkways take
Tourists through these perils
Its all for their own sake

Its easy to fall through the earth
Into a toxic pond
Only the bears know where to walk
They have their magic wand

And even the rangers use them
For they are safe and can
Be used to walk around these pools
Despite the weight of man

Lots of thermal fluids
And heat too where some can
Swim in Ban Ya Lake its nice and warm
And thats the plan

For many of the operators
Who live and research there
They use this hot mud bubbling
And they just love to share

All those mineral qualities
That smooth and soften too
The caldera green with energy
The bears believe its true

Such a gloriousness around about
So much for one to see
The bears they have no fear of us
And live there naturally

This is how it should be
No poachers anywhere
The hunting mob are no where
The animals all share

Russia seems to care about its
Wild places and we
Watch our countries destroying them
Creating adversity

Allowing in the hunters the trappers
Thats what we
Are doing to our wild life
And soon we shall not see

Badgers foxes rabbits
The solitary Hare
Grouse and pheasants
Why is that because we are not aware
Of the value and importance
Of the wild souls of the field
Of how their very existence
And of How it all does build

Into a land of wonderment
Each has a place and they
Change the
Land mass materially
Until man gets in the way

We have to work with nature
Preserve with empathy
Leave the bloody guns at home
Just come along and see

Be part of Mother Nature
And everything she does
See her glorious colours
Hear her eternal buzz

Watch the myriad gifts she gives
And be amazed that she
Lets us come with cameras
And be a luminary