Friday, 25 July 2025 -
A long night with little good sleep. We woke at 6 am to the patter of
rain on the tent. Struggling to get chest high waders on in our tent, we
finally emerged from our tent. The guides gave us a dry breakfast - thankfully,
I had brought many packs of trail mix.
There was a fine drizzle and a fog limited visibility to 100 feet. Our guides reported that the weather was bad all over the park, and they did not believe we would be picked up. We may have to spend a second night in the camp!!!!
With a guide we headed out to photograph the bears catching their breakfast - in the rain.
There was a fine drizzle and a fog limited visibility to 100 feet. Our guides reported that the weather was bad all over the park, and they did not believe we would be picked up. We may have to spend a second night in the camp!!!!
With a guide we headed out to photograph the bears catching their breakfast - in the rain.
The mother and two cubs were wet and so cute.
Shortly after this the mother left the river with the cubs into the brush along the river.
They all dropped and scampered into the brush.
A bear with a pretty salmon.
We looked upstream and saw the mother and cubs had returned and were now fishing. Frustrated that we should have stayed put where they were first photographed, we decided to hoof it back to them.
Unfortunately they did not hang around as there were several males moving along the river.
About this time a guide from our camp ran up and told us that in two hours at two o'clock we would be picked up. We were so excited to be picked up, so our plans for the weekend would not be in jeopardy.
Back at the lodge we learned that none of the group had been able to fly, so no one else took any bear pictures the last day of the workshop. In hindsight, it was a good decision to stay over in the lake camp. We were able to shoot for several hours in the evening and 5 hours the next morning.
