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Jul 9, 2011 - Brooks Camp

The morning started out with light rain. Since the bear activity has been relatively slow at the falls we decided to concentrate on the beaches and platform at the bridge. Kathy, Allan and I started out first thing with a bear walking down the beach towards us. We set up our tripods and started taking pictures only to be rudely interrupted by Kathy trying to point out to us the approaching bear that had come down to the beach behind us, the bear was approaching at under 20 yards as we gathered our gear making a fast retreat to the relative...

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Jul 8, 2011 - Brooks Camp

After breakfast we headed out to the Brooks Fall’s platforms under partly cloudy skies. The bear activity at the falls was slow with few fish jumping and four or five bears fishing. We decided to head back to the platform at the bridge you have to cross to get the falls trail and look for the mother bear that had three cubs of the year (COY). We did find them walking on the beach by the float planes but at a distance tht was no good for photography. The bear watching from the platform was very good and the bears were close enough to the...

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Jul 7, 2011 - Brooks Camp

We arrived in Katmia National Park after a flight on Pen Air to King Salmon and a 30 minute float plane ride to Brooks Lodge. After our briefing on appropriate bear ethic we checked in to our spacious cabin with our friends Sue and Allan. We spent the afternoon out on the platforms in the rain at the Brooks Falls watching brown bears trying to catch salmon. The salmon run was late this year and the bears were not having much luck. The rain was damping our bear watching experience and we headed back to our cabin. As we were leaving our cabin...

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