Sam And Saundra's Second Time Around - Part 67

Sam And Saundra’s Second Time Around – Part 67

Alaska 

7/9/11- 8/3/11 – Talon Air Adventure 

Just about the time that we needed to move out of the way for the next boat to have a turn, a huge brown bear shows up.  Gets very close. Closer than what we got to the glacier.  Some bear gawkers get uncomfortable at how close.  Me, I am taking pictures and am used to the X10 view of animals.  No worries.  At least until I took the camera away from my eyes.  OOOHHH!  Close!  ‘Brownie is intent on fishing.  We stop fishing as we do not want to antagonize this bear. We want to stay up close without getting too personal.  She checks out the shore area first – I think to make sure none of those other bears were going to surprise her.  Then she enters the water.  She looks over the fish buffet, every once in a while casting a glance our way.  She looks hungry. I try to look very unappetizing.  Very hard for me to do.  I do no want to be bear bait! I go back to taking pictures.  Much safer. The bear fished, then swam out into the lake and around the shoreline, out of sight to the left. 

Coming Up For Air

We thought this fantabulous adventure had hit its high point… we fish, catching a few more, then the bear returns for an encore performance.  We stopped all activity to give her a proper audience. She finally went back into the brush and we took off to the other side of the lake.  We note a small resort is located on one of the shore/inlets of the lake.  Turns out that there is ‘an adventure’ where you can fly here, experience a vacation stay in a most remote area, while staying at a fairly functioning resort.  No parking lots. No truck noise. On the other side of the lake, we view a great waterfalls and our guide takes our pictures.  We in turn catch sight of an eagle, then another and when I download my pictures, I discover that it was an occupied nest. It is time to fly back.  Six hours have gone by way too fast.

Mmm...Another Tasty Morsel?