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Trapper’s Grizzly Adventure 1 of 2

May 5, 2016 Lodge Guide

watching a grizzly bear fishing

Your extra day at the lodge is a tour with Trapper Rick who is cross Knight Inlet, through Thompson Sound to the Kakweikan River. This remote river is located on the BC mainland and we travel by road, cross a river by boat and a short level hike to Rick’s cabin. Just below the cabin about 200 meters (yards) on the river one is able to sit and overlook and area where the grizzly bears come to fish salmon. The first photo shows guests looking across the river….

Whales watching by Braille

Some of the mornings, until noon at the latest, provide your guide a reason to use their GPS. It is also fun to try and locate orca or humpback whales by sound. The whales by Braille routine requires allot of stopping and listening until a “tell tail” blow is heard from either an orca or a humpback whale it is then necessary to determine the direction of the sound and to move ion that direction. This is more of a challenge than one would think as the fog muffles the sound and makes determining direction interesting. The whales make this more difficult as they frequently change direction while the orca are at least a little more consistent in their movements. This low fog makes for a mystic picture and also shows why the morning that has fog clear up pretty fast.