Monday, August 13, 2012
Cheri-12-12
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We were up at 5am and headed up to the Bear Viewing site on Fish Creek. We spent 3 hours there and saw a wolf come into the water and catch a fish. He took it off into the woods to eat and then was back for more. Gay was able to get a number of great pictures of him. I didn’t think wolves fed on fish and the ranger said even people that have studied wolves didn’t realize that the wolves caught fish to eat.
We also saw a young eagle feeding on the Salmon in the river. We were just about to leave and the ranger stopped us to let us know a sow and her cub were in the lagoon. We watched them for quite a long time. They splashed around in the water and the cub was even running around with a stick in its mouth. It wasn’t long and they made their way over to the creek and we thought they would catch and eat fish but they just waded through the water and went off into the woods. Again Gay got some really neat pictures. We decided to head back to the 5th wheel around 9:15.
We had a small prayer meeting by Spikes rig and at 11:15 we were ready to carpool to Salmon Glacier. It is the 5th largest glacier in Canada. The roads were ruff, we did a lot of bouncing around, but finally after driving 21 miles, we arrived at the Glacier.
What an awesome site. The blue in the glacier is so pretty. The Bear Man, Keith Scott, lives up at Salmon Glacier during the summer in a small pup tent. He gave us a lecture on the glacier and on the bears. He hikes all over the area up there. He even camps out in a cave at the mouth of the glacier at times. He has written a number of books. We ended up buying his book on Costal Bears, as well as his DVD on Fish Creek & Salmon Glacier. He also pointed out the wild flowers in a meadow high on top of the mountain. Gay was able to zoom in on them and get some neat shots of all the flowers.
It was a full day. When we arrived back at the campsite, we decided tonight was the night for fish & chips at the Blue Bus. It is the best halibut we’ve ever had. We just made it before she closed. She was supposed to close at 8pm and today she was closing early at 4pm. Her fish & chips were just as we remembered it from our 2008 tour to Alaska.
We had a meeting with Spike at the SeaAlaska Bar at 6:30pm. Gay was in a little skit Spike had on patience. It went well. I think everyone is all set to move on to Dease Lake. The meeting was over in about 30 minutes and then we were off to the dump to see if we could see more bears. We sure hit the jackpot? We saw 7 bears, 2 adults, 1 young one, and 4 little cubs. It was our lucky day.
To see pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Hyder Bears & Salmon Glacier.
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