Great Bear Rainforest (Part 3)

The evening of the 2nd day and morning of the 3rd were taken up with grizzly watching from our zodiacs at Mussel Estuary. Accordingly, this blog entry will be mostly photos. Two other boats were in the estuary, but we stayed out of each others way. The morning trip was pre-breakfast, and we got several hours of viewing before anybody else showed up.

Here is an action shot. In the evening, we were watching a mother and cub on one bank, and a solo female, Blondie, on the other.

The next morning, we watched the mother and cub forage for salmon up and down the bank, in slow-moving water, and in fast-moving water. 

Here our ursine friends give us a quick, unconcerned glance before ambling off.

I took this shot on the way back to the Island Roamer. Look closely at the silhouetted stump ... on the right side is a bald eagle. We saw lots of bald eagles on this trip. (The tip for spotting bald eagles is to look for "golf balls" in the trees. They are the heads of the eagles.)

Here are two happy grizzly watchers, Mareda and Joan.