Monday, July 28 - No Bears (Stewart BC, Canada)

 

Today we didn’t go for the early morning bear viewing.

Bob went by himself..He saw this wolf, but no bears. (Bob’s picture)

I got laundry caught up this morning and this afternoon Jesse and I decided to go out and get some lunch and then to the bear walk.

The “Dash” is an unusual place in Stewart. Guess who we found there waiting for their food? Bob and Janet. We sat with them and visited. They had gone to the bear walk, but I will let them tell what they saw if anything.

We drove by the harbor area and found this interesting facts about Hyder.

This is what’s left of the houses on pilings.

Some pictures I took of Stewart

Have no idea what they did with these buses. At one time they must have done some kind of transport to the bear walk

We went to the bear walk, saw no bears just fish, see the small fish on the bottom right hand and top right of this picture.

Jesse with some bear skins

We travel again tomorrow, today was our last day in Alaska.

Sunday, July 27 - Bears, Bears and More Bears (Stewart BC, Canada)

 

This morning started early. Awake at 4:30am to get dressed and go see bears at the bear walkway.

Bob, Jesse and I were on our way by 5:30am.

Janet didn’t want to get up, as she was up late into the early morning, so she sleeps late.

Just as we got there,we saw a black bear on the road, we hurried to the walkway to see him coming out of the forest.

Bob got a great picture of the bear jumping into the river that I hijacked.

In the rain we kept watching hoping more bears would come. We took pictures of fish.

Once we were finished at the river we decided to get some breakfast and the guys got HYDERIZED!

We saw this grizzly while we were on our way home walking down river.

Hyder has a population of 86 people. It is really not much look at, this is what they call it.

Post Office

Some homes

As we were returning to camp we saw the rainbow, the area is very eerie!

Back through the Canadian Border

It rained off and on all day, Jesse walked to the office to pay for a third night here and took some pictures of the campground.

I made baked chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, broccoli and rolls for dinner. We ate our dinner then got ready to go back to Bear River to watch for bears. We were not disappointed.

As the Mama bear continued to traveled the river banks the cub got left behind. I could hear it calling for it’s Mom. The cub climbed a tree until Mom came back for it.

Momma seems more interested in eat the greenery then catching salmon.

When they were finished they walked up river then crossed the road and were gone.

It was a good day the the bears are just awesome!!