Today was another new and exciting day of adventure in Alaska. We went on a long planned and anticipated bear watching tour. We caught a flight in a Cessna 206 aircraft on a personal guided tour of Clark Lake National Park in a quest to find bears.
In July and August, the bears fish for Red Salmon in these streams. This time of year, they graze on grasses along the rivers and head out on the mud flats at low tide to search for clams.
It was very exciting to land on the beach in the aircraft (it has huge tires). We went on a hike, mostly along the coast of Chinitna Bay. We saw 11 different bears through the course of the 3 hours tour.
We had a couple of superb guides/pilots and learned a lot about bears in their natural habitat. It sure is different watching them lumber over a long distance and interact in nature than it is seeing them pace back and forth in a zoo cage.
Our flight home was over a glacier and near a volcano venting some steam. The pilot actually let me handle the yoke a bit on the way home.
Bears, exercise and flying lessons in a single day. How great is that?
Wow! You guys are on quite the adventure!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dan.... right now we don't know if we will ever return, so we are experiencing as much as possible. I keep thinking how much you would love it up here.
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