Early risers get the sunrise at Grizzly Bear Lodge. The guides are up at 6:30 setting out breakfast, fresh coffee and getting our boats packet with picnic lunches and drinks for the full day ahead. Guests are called by seven and we like to be underway by eight although some guests (depending on how long they have been in British Columbia) are up waiting for the guides. The overcast sky looks ominous however Knight Inlet does attract that low morning cloud but it is gone before noon for the whale watching safaris which travel toward the Johnstone Strait area. For the grizzly bear tour which heads up the inlet is gone by the time you reach Glendale Cove around nine.
This is a humpback whale on its side waving a pectoral fin. This flipper is very long (five meters/yards), between 1/4 and 1/3 the length of its body, and has large knobs on the leading edge. From a distance it can be confused with an orca dorsal fin, which is tomorrow’s post.
