Guide Blogs

We had a nice day for it with blue skies and calm seas to and from the bears. A few unusual things happened, starting with a school of about 20 harbour porpoises in Clio Channel. We mostly see them in smaller groups or alone so we stopped to see if we could try our hand at getting pictures. They still were very shy but I managed to get one shot. In Knight inlet we were pleased to come a across a school of about 50 dolphins that began wake riding our stern wave. They haven't been around for a week so it was a pleasure to see them again. Upon entering the usual bear spot we had our binoculars out scanning the beaches and I spotted two close to our float... The two bears were close together and not just touching but one on top of the other doing what makes grizzly babies... We managed to change to our estuary skiff, approach to a reasonable distance and observe the courtship unfold. The female might have been a little shy with us there so we moved off to watch a black bear, looking back to see them enjoying their privacy from a distance. During lunch we witnessed a few more mounts a few hundred meters down on the beach. After lunch we watched two sub adult females who seem to be hanging around each other. Lenore was nowhere to be seen but it might be a good thing with two different males being spotted in the last week. On the way back we spotted the dolphins again and oh yeah... I forgot to mention a black bear mom and two yearling cubs on the way up in the morning. Great day!
by Lindsey Pattinson