Bear Photos (Kodiak, McKinley Park: cabins, beach, to eat)

[starlite9]

Figured since there is so much interest in bears, everyone can post their photos of what they got here.

This photo was sent to me by a friend. It is a "Herd" of Brown Bears on Kodiak Island where a dead whale washed up on the beach and they are feeding on it while it is in the water..

Have have hunderds of photos, and will dig them up and scan them to the site.

Not sure, but the photo looks like it was taken at "Salmon Bay", that is the cut where the creek is coming out of the bluff, not what you would think of as a "Bay" since the water is out from open ocean. It opens into a wider area where the bears come to eat salmon in the summer. The Fish and Game have a cabin there so they can do salmon counts in the creek, each spring the bears break in and roll the stoves and such out to the beach to play with them.

Last time I was there, I was talking with the F & G when they were rolling the stove back from the beach and kept hearing a "BONK BONG" noise. I asked them what that was and he pointed to a white spot on the bluff. Some bear guide had built a couple of metal dome cabins for hunters, the bears crushed them and were being entertained by boucing up and down of the metal sections because they would go "BONK BONG" and would do so for hours until the metal cracked enough to stop, then they went to the next section....

[vette-dude]

Cool, just don't catch me down there with them...I can't run that fast., but also
nature at it's best...beautiful in a wierd way.

[Captain Crunch]

Thanks s9.....I'll participate in this one a little later or tonight

[mal_flisk]

I tried to post that photo and couldn't but have it in my album here on the site. The question I was trying to post with it was "how many bears do you see in this photo?" Officially, it's 46, but I keep coming up with 48.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

Thanks s9.....I'll participate in this one a little later or tonight

Looking forward to seeing them!

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by mal_flisk

I tried to post that photo and couldn't but have it in my album here on the site. The question I was trying to post with it was "how many bears do you see in this photo?" Officially, it's 46, but I keep coming up with 48.

Hard to see the ones that are using snorkles...

[thebushman]

wow nice picture!

[starlite9]

Here is a few more.

One is of a polar bear that swam past the boat when we were at Anchor up North and walked up on the beach and took a nap.

The two eyes is all you can see of one Brown Bear, I was standing by a salmon stream at sunset looking at them when it started to get dark, was walking back down to the car and heard the odd splashing and took the photo, all you can see is the eyes watching me. This was down in Sitka. There were bears all over, but you couldn't see them, just hear then thrashing around in the brush....

The two of Grizzly bears were taken in Mt. McKinley Park a few years ago when we won the Lottery to drive back into the Park in our truck.

[aurorawatcher]

Nice pics SL

[Siouxcia]

I'm going to be on Admiralty Island for three months. I read that it has the largest number of bear than anywhere else in Alaska; 1600 to 1800 in number. I'm hoping they're hibernating while I'm there.

Great picture by the way!