Travel Blog

Sue:

Before we get to all bears all the time, I just wanted to let ya'll know that it's been unbearably warm here in Skagway for the past few days. We've been getting temperatures well up into the 80s. I've seen more tourists in tank tops than I ever needed to see. I'm putting in a request for a tube-top uniform.

But enough about me, let's see some bears. Our friends Jerry and Jeanie saw the mom and trio baby bears the other day, and were generous enough to let me take those pictures to show you since Phil and I haven't been able to get any good pictures of them yet. (They also have a really funny movie clip of them that I wanted to try out here, but the video file is not working on my computer, so you'll just have to wait for that one.) I made a couple of their pictures into the big ones at the top of the page, but kept this one for the blog:



But wait, there's more! Phil and I were crashed on our respective butt receptacles after work last evening when we got a text message from Sherry saying she just saw a grizzie in Dyea. So Phil and I jumped up and raced off to Dyea to see if we could see him too. We met up with Sherry on the way out, and she told us where she last saw him. We went to where we thought she said, but we didn't see any bears, so we decided to drive out on the Dyea flats to see what was going on there. We still didn't have any bear luck, so we decided to try out our 4-wheel-drive and bumped and squeezed our way off the beaten path...and there he was.

We stayed and watched him for a long while, and wished we had ordered the camcorder we have on our Amazon.com Wishlist (we have since ordered said camera), but then the lighting got really bad so we packed it in and left him in peace. And on our way home, we got this great shot of the moon:



We're hiking a killer trail tomorrow with some pals of ours. It's called AB Mountain, and it takes all day. So you probably won't hear from me tomorrow, but that will give you plenty of time to enjoy the bear pics.