Bear Photos (camping, bus, summer)

[thebushman]

nice pictures star

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by starlite9

I have one somewhere I took in '89 of a dead whale up on the beach just south of the town of Kodiak, with two very large bears standing on it fighting.

We were in a helo headed to Old Harbor and stopped and watch them for a few min's. You could see them slam each other and the fat under the fur would ripple down their bodies...

Funny part is there was more whale there than either could eat in their lifetime. Will post that when I can scan it.

Here is the photo of the dead whale on the Beach, couldn't get to the camera when the bears were fighting over the whale, but when headed back from Old Harbor, got a picture of the whale and all the bear tracks around it.

[starlite9]

While waiting out a storm, pulled into a bay in Katmai National Park and anchored just around the inside corner. The next morning, a Brown Bear Sow with a cub walked down the beach, the cub was so blond, it is really hard to see against the rocks. The other photo is of an old abandon Cannery about five hundred feet behind the bear as you would pan to the right. There are hundreds of these canneries all over the Gulf Coast of Alaska that were abandon over half a century ago and longer.

[starlite9]

While flying along the coast, saw this brown bear grazing on grass since the salmon where running yet.

[starlite9]

Here are a couple photos of bears that were out grazing on grass in early spring before the salmon were starting to run. Both were taken within a half a mile of where Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend were killed and eaten. Seems that the bears weren't as much his friends as he thought. Main reason my photos are from farther away, I respect their space.

[Rance]

A sow and cub just above Russian River. Scrounging for fish scraps along the Kenai in late Sept 2 years ago.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Rance

A sow and cub just above Russian River. Scrounging for fish scraps along the Kenai in late Sept 2 years ago.

Wonder if that was the one that mauled the guy there a few years back... I guess that was about five or six years ago now...

[thebushman]

Originally Posted by starlite9

Wonder if that was the one that mauled the guy there a few years back... I guess that was about five or six years ago now...

yeah that would be kinda ironic.

[Rance]

Could be.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Rance

Could be.

Well it would either be the "Mom" was the cub then, or the "Mom" with a new cub... But they tend to stay in the same area... And they never did track that bear down after the mauling....