July 27th - 29th - Appleton Cove

Steve checking out the creek the bears were the night before

View from Appleton Cove



Mama bear and 3 little bears

Papa bear

And the eagle is always there to eat the rest of the salmon

Appleton Cove (a good place for a girl who grew up on an apple farm!)

There is nothing quite so special as seeing grizzly bears in their natural habitat doing what they do naturally - no observation platforms this time. We spent two days watching a total of 6 bears play, fight, rest, graze and catch fish. One very big male with a golden blond back, a big female with three fairly large cubs and another outsider who hung on the edge of the activity. We were anchored as close as we could get to the beach without going aground and were still half a mile away but with binoculars were treated to quite a show. Especially when the big male was fishing. He would splash around in the stream, I imagine to confuse the fish which probably wasn’t very hard to do, and come up with a big salmon which he would carry up the bank to eat. It was lovely to watch the mom and her cubs. They all looked big and healthy and seemed to spend most of their time hanging out with each other and staying out of the way of the male. Fun days!