Bear walks right past a patient seagull which waits for any tiny morsels which might float by....
At Katmai - Brooks Lodge, there were DOZENS of bears to be seen in all different directions, some only 75 to 100 feet away.
Shot from floatplane on route to Katmai to see the bears.
Bill went on a side trip to Katmai National Park to see Brooks Lodge (Ilea sat this one out b/c of ear problems when flying.) This place is the one you may have seen on TV where the bears all wait at the edge of the waterfalls as the salmon are jumping up the falls trying to spawn upstream. The bears actually CATCH the fish in mid-air. Place is only accessible by FLOATPLANES.
We tried to run, but we couldn't hide!! Yogi got us good!
Downtown Anchorage has a 'Salmon on Parade' art festival ...here is one of MANY.
You'll never guess ........ Bill is doing a dramatization of blowing a seal........
UP! The eskimos skinned seals , then tied off the neck end, and plugged up the butt end (except for a small straw placed in the anus - where one would blow air up the butt end ! Its a real seal pictured here) This was done so that it could be effectively used as a bouy that was attached by rope to a spear which had been stuck into a whale; whale may try to swim down and away, but in unable b/c the bouyant seal bouy brings the whale back to the surface! That really blows for the whale, huh?
1964 major earthquake that shook Anchorage has an actual PARK in remembrance of that day the earth cracked like an egg.
This was a view of Mt. McKinley from a rest stop we drydocked at recently.
Uhhh, hand me those binoculars.....Grizzly approaching....I think!!(Heard while kayaking recently)
Bullwinkle came within 10 feet of our car!
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