August 11, 2014
Today there is no rain!!
Forecast was for 40% chance, but no rain and it was a beautiful
day! It was also terribly hot today with
a high of 75. We had to use sunscreen
and wore short sleeve t-shirts. But it was still a great day.
There isn't that much to say about today. After breakfast we headed out to Fish River
to try to photograph the bears. We
stayed there until about 2:00, went back to Fred to walk Scout and rest a
little. We then went back to the river
about 4:30 and didn't leave until 8:30 tonight.
Most of the time was spent waiting on the silly bears to make their
appearances and we spent that time talking to others about where they have
traveled, cameras, camera lens, and solving the problems of the world. We had to go through Canadian Customs twice
today. The agents at this site are very
nice and recognize us by now and basically take our passports and scan them in
to the system with our tag number, ask us if we made in purchases in Hyder,
have any weapons and send us on our way with a “see you tomorrow.”
We got good pictures and videos of the bears today. One of the bears has been named Jaws by the
Forestry Service because it had an injury to its mouth several years ago and
still has evidence of the injury.
Jaws is good at fishing, but for some reason today was releasing about three out of four catches.
Another is tagged in each ear.
She is something like 13 years old and they call her Mira. Both of these are grizzlies. Mira wasn't very successful at fishing today, but did eat some of the fish Jaws had killed and left.
There is another grizzly who comes around often,
but he in only about 3-4 years old and doesn't have a name or tags at this
time. Then there are black bears and one
black cub that we know of. There has
also been a wolf coming around most days for the past week, but so for that has
always been when we haven't been around.
We were hoping to see him today, but he didn't make an appearance at all
today. Maybe tomorrow.
We stopped at “The Bus” for supper. Halibut fish and chips. It gets good ratings on TripAdvisor and we
had heard about it from some other RVers.
It lived up to it's reputation.
Also some other RVers tried the fish chowder and said it was
wonderful. Salmon, halibut and snapper
in a chowder. Sounds good, but we could
barely eat all our halibut, so we didn't try the chowder.
Just a few pictures today because we have horrible internet
tonight. We will post additional
pictures when we have better service.
Probably more of the same tomorrow except we might go see
Salmon Glacier. Or we may just hang out
with the bears again.
Yea Bears!
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