Cougar Encounter

While walking along an old gravel road up the Kettle River Valley, I was photographing a deer off the side of the road but then noticed something come out onto the road just a short distance from me and it was a Cougar. I turned my camera away from the deer and got a few photos of the Cougar before it wandered off into the bush. It appeared very curious as to what I was up too as it sat down for a brief moment watching me and then dropped off the road out of sight. I do not think it noticed the deer.