wow, incredibly close- you aren't kidding! just as i'm typing this to you some owls are hooing! nature galore. once when i was hiking along the "lost coast" of california, we got to a place where there were all the male elk who had lost that years go at the harem, alllll gathered together. huge elk, like 20 of them, and they were used to humans and would be like 15 ft (no joke) from your campsite. we had our large guard dog (a pyrenees) with us at the time and at first were freaked out and kept our distance, but slowly realized they were just so used to humans they didn't really care. didn't turn my back on them still tho! haha but got some great pics.