You can spend your entire life travelng to view wildlife and never shoot a photograph like this in the wild. Our guide carried a rifle, along with bear spray, just in case. We photographed a lot of black bears, and a brown bear by the shore. I have photos of bears eating fish and dripping blood down their chin to the rock below, but that might too gross for some of you.
Here is the beginning of the path built by the National Forest Service. There are only 60 permits a day issued by the government for visitors.
When we spotted our first eagle in Ketchikan, I felt so thrilled to spot such a magestic bird like an eagle in the wild. Now, ha, there are eagles everywhere, but I still get a kick when I spot one. They don't look so mean when they are soaring.
This is a Sitka Spruce. It's so striking in appearance and color that it's easy to recognize this type of tree. It is also the state tree of Alaska, and I can see why -- it's beautiful!
Mama bear and cub travel along a log near the stream at the Anan Wildlife Observatory. Black bears generally have 2 cubs but they have a 50% mortality rate, said our guide. I didn't ask what happened because it would probably give me nightmares; besides, I'm still struggling with the fact that all the salmon die afer going upstream to spawn.
OK, I couldn't help myself. Here is the photo of the black bear eating his catch.
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