Sunday, August 19, 2007

Haines, Alaska










On Tuesday, August 7th we arrived in Skagway which has a population of 800 year round residents. Early in the morning Mike and I boarded a ferry bound for Haines, where we went on a wildlife expedition tour. On the 45 minute trip over to Haines we saw dozens of seals "sunning" themselves on the rock, even though it was foggy and misty. Later it began to rain as we walked with our guide Chessie along a river. Perhaps because our group was small with only eight vistors and two guides, we got very lucky and found a Grizzly bear feeding along the river. He wasn't eating fish but rather vegetation. We watched him for more than 15 minutes and he was less than 50 feet from us! Chessie our guide showed us a fish carcass left earlier by a bear along the river bank. After we left the river and headed to the rain forest we saw a sign warning us we were entering bear country. Go figure! The rain forest was lovely, but we saw only trees, ferns and lot and lots of varieties of mushrooms.

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