Greg -
I had an interesting day today. Not only did I capture a bear clearly on film but I also managed to see and clearly photograph a wolf! I'd heard wolves last year when Jack and I stayed at the Berg Bay cabin, but I'd never seen one in the wild. This one was very interested in me and took a good long look at me before slowly walking away from me into the woods - keeping an eye on me the entire time.
Janet leaves Tuesday morning, so I gave Jack another day off. I know that they both appreciate the extra undivided time together. I drove to far south end of the island today to check on the Thom's Creek site. I saw the wolf at the far end of the island and the bear very close to Long Lake. It has been raining off and on for the past few days and today was especially wet and cold. The entire forest road system was incredibly quiet - I didn't see another person the entire time I was out.
We just returned from the first night of what will be five days worth of activities in celebration of the 4th of July. Wrangell takes its 4th of July celebration seriously and the week is chock full of activities (log rolling, grease pole climb, canoe races, triathlon, logger show), culminating in a parade, concert, and fireworks display on the fourth. Tonight was the log rolling competition and greased pole climb. What must have been the entire population of Wrangell lined the upper level of the city dock - it was an accident waiting to happen as roughly 500 people stood within inches of the edge of the dock looking down at the competition taking place on the water roughly twenty-five feet below (low tide). While the dock did have a row of railroad ties to keep cars from rolling off of the dock, there was nothing to keep a human from falling onto the dock below. I love Alaska's lack of nannies.
I had an interesting day today. Not only did I capture a bear clearly on film but I also managed to see and clearly photograph a wolf! I'd heard wolves last year when Jack and I stayed at the Berg Bay cabin, but I'd never seen one in the wild. This one was very interested in me and took a good long look at me before slowly walking away from me into the woods - keeping an eye on me the entire time.
Janet leaves Tuesday morning, so I gave Jack another day off. I know that they both appreciate the extra undivided time together. I drove to far south end of the island today to check on the Thom's Creek site. I saw the wolf at the far end of the island and the bear very close to Long Lake. It has been raining off and on for the past few days and today was especially wet and cold. The entire forest road system was incredibly quiet - I didn't see another person the entire time I was out.
We just returned from the first night of what will be five days worth of activities in celebration of the 4th of July. Wrangell takes its 4th of July celebration seriously and the week is chock full of activities (log rolling, grease pole climb, canoe races, triathlon, logger show), culminating in a parade, concert, and fireworks display on the fourth. Tonight was the log rolling competition and greased pole climb. What must have been the entire population of Wrangell lined the upper level of the city dock - it was an accident waiting to happen as roughly 500 people stood within inches of the edge of the dock looking down at the competition taking place on the water roughly twenty-five feet below (low tide). While the dock did have a row of railroad ties to keep cars from rolling off of the dock, there was nothing to keep a human from falling onto the dock below. I love Alaska's lack of nannies.
Thumbs up to Alaska's lack of nannies!!
ReplyDeleteNow, that's a bear! Next time, could you just go stand next to the bear so I can see how big he is? It's a little hard to tell when he's out there all alone - but he looks BIG - not like our little Colorado bears. It must be all of that delicious Alaskan fish that they have to dine on! - it makes for big, strong, healthy, happy bears. Are there any bears in the area that are renowned and have been named by the local populace?
Oh, and how lucky you are to have seen that wolf - and that looks really close up - I'll bet you were shakin' in your boots - it's amazing that you 1) had your camera ready and 2) that you could hold it still! Good job - that's an amazing picture - I can't wait to see it on a bigger screen. Stay safe!