VIDEO: 4 Black Bears Join California Beachgoers In The Water

California beachgoers were treated to an unexpected surprise when a group of black bears decided to join them in the water.

According to NBC News, a large adult black bear and three cubs wandered onto a South Lake Tahoe beach on Sunday, June 27. They played in the water next to about a dozen shocked beachgoers.

"We were all a little shocked," one beachgoer who filmed the bears, Jen Watkins, told KCRA.

In the captured footage, the cubs are seen wrestling in the lake. They likely joined the beachgoers to try to stay cool in the high temperatures. NBC News reports that it was 90 degrees in South Lake Tahoe that day.

The four bears also came close to the people who weren't in the water as well. Watkins said one bear managed to take off with somebody's cooler before they returned to the forest.

While wildlife encounters like these are exciting, the Placer County Sheriff's Office reminded people that getting close to bears is "very dangerous."

“We are in their territory when we're up in the Foothills and in the Sierra [Nevada],” Lt. Nelson Resendes said. "Don't feed them, don't entice them, don't provoke them and, obviously in a setting like this ... don't approach them ... respect their space."