Spring Grizzly Bear and Cub
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Black bear on a grizzly tour
The day tour up Knight Inlet from Grizzly Bear Lodge is about an hour run to the Glendale River estuary an area frequented by grizzly bears. On this run it is common to see black bears coming to the shore eat the barnacles and muscles exposed by the low tide. Some of these bears are patient or maybe to interested in food and ignore our boat stopping for pictures other disappear as soon as we slow down. The younger bears tend to run the older bears have accepted the intrusion and realize there is no danger.
Grizzly Bear “at work”
After August 25 the grizzly bear watching takes place from viewing stands on Knight Inlet’s Glendale River. A classic pose after a good catch. A salmon in the mouth is the reasons the bears come to this part of British Columbia’s coast and also the reason we come.
Wildlife Viewing – Black Bears
Grizzly bear and in this case black bear cubs stay pretty close to mum especially when they are new born or first year cubs. They are not quite in step but never far behind. The first photo was taken on one of the “first evening in camp” trips that is normally a guests first boat trip of their stay. A good low tide and the bears come out to play / eat. The second photo is from the morning grizzly bear tour up Knight Inlet all safari trips whether for grizzlies or whales often involve black bears in this case a mother and three cubs.
Spring Grizzly Bears
In the spring the grizzly bears we view on lodges wilderness tours are primarily grazers. They some down to the shores of Knight Inlet to eat the sedge grass which is very high in protein this sustains them until the salmon enter the rivers of British Columbia’s coast in mid-August. The morning grizzly bear tour uses 18 to 20 foot boats to travel up Knight Inlet to the Glendale River where we transfer to smaller flat bottom boats that allow us to drift along the shore to watch and hear the bears eating.
Grizzly Bear Swimming
Grizzly bears are great swimmers and are commonly seen in the water in the river estuaries of BC’s Knight Inlet. They swim so well that they have now migrated across Johnstone Strait to Vancouver Island and this is between one and a half to a two-mile swim. The area biologists but radio collars on ten grizzly bears about eleven years ago and one of them crossed Knight Inlet five times.
Grizzly Bears??
Again photos from Grant and Judith Fuller of Bangor NSW Australia. No these are not grizzly bears even if one appears to have a brown tinge to its fur, just two good-sized black bears. Whether on a whale safari or a grizzly bear tour we are constantly looking for black bears and other wildlife while we scan the shore from the boat. On your first evening in the lodge we do a black bear tour for about and hour and a half if the tide is low enough. Low tide is required, as it is hard to find bears on the beach if there is no beach.
Grizzly Bear Alert!
A day of grizzly bear viewing from our lodge requires a run up BC’s Knight Inlet to a salmon spawning river that attracks bears from the surrounding area. This grizzly seems to have its eye on us as it leaves the river and comes toward the viewing stand. Wildlife viewing, as you know is not a zoo but most of time the results are outstanding.
Grizzly bear fishing
This could be a two for one photo provided by Janis (from UK). A great shot of a grizzly bear with a salmon and also in the background, if you look closely a salmon coming over the small falls. If you click on the picture it will enlarge to give you a better view. On the wildlife safari trips it is easier to get a picture of a grizzly bear feeding than a salmon over the falls.
Black Bear while Whale Watching
Wildlife viewing is where you find it and many of the black bears we find are on whale watching trips. This black bear has done a good job of putting on weight over the summer. He is in good shape for the coming winter. This one was not going swimming rather was concentrating on getting more muscles and barnacles from the rocks before the tide rose.
