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.
It is not only the cubs (see March 12th posting) who are interested in the wildlife viewers in the platform overlooking the Glendale River. Even with camera’s flashes turned off the clicking of the shutter will often interest the grizzlies. It may have been a sudden movement from above or something knocking against a railing. It is not as if we were a 100 meters (yards) away it is more like 30 meters and at times they are beneath the platform. This bear was coming up the bank while moving from the natural river into the spawning area.
