You make my heart sing!
Look into the eyes of wild grizzlies,
and you can see their wild souls.
On a typical day we are seeing 25 or so individual bears.
There are a lot of cubs. One mama has four which is quite unusual.
They are here for the salmon,
and need to consume about 20,000 calories a day to prepare for winter.
Arguments do break out,
but don’t last long.
Wildlife in The Knight Inlet in Canada is incredible and I will be posting more photos of bears and many other wild creatures.
Here is one of the venues where the action is taking place.
Cheers to you from the magnificent wild grizzlies who look directly into our human hearts and ask for our protection~
The big ones are scary to me, but the little cubs are so cute – bet those claws could give a mighty swipe at whatever size though! Great photos Cindy. 🙂
Thank you! Being here for a longer time than our previous visit is a thrill of a life time!
Magnificent!
They are SO magnificent! Thank you for seeing this~
The first picture is so adorable. The bear looks so cuddly, easy to forget how dangerous they can be. So great to see pictures of them in the wild.
I have the same feeling seeing the first picture. It is also sort of funny too. I could imagine forgetting about how dangerous they can be and attempt give them a pat or two.
It is so wonderful to seem them thriving, but as we flew in by float plane, we see clear cut forest way too close to them.
We just can’t leave nature alone. It’s sad
We need to protect so many species as man destroys their habitats and then kills them because they are a threat when we move into their territory. By the way, great pictures!
Exactly right! The more time you spend with wild ones the more you want to protect them.
Great photos!! Amazing nature environment! Made me think of the old TV show Gentle Ben and of course Yogi Bear and Boo boo. However knowing that bears are wild animals I’m not about to get too close. Don’t want to become the bears’ next meal!! LOL!! 🙂
At least those old shows displayed their often placid dispositions.
You did it again! From a height of five hundred feet with telephoto lens?
No way! We were on wooden walkways designed for bear viewing and get close. The bears could get to us if they wanted to, but they don’t.
Seeing the bears was one of the most exciting thing for us in Alaska. We kept a long way away from them, though. They are scary!
They certainly can be if surprised or approached ignorantly.
I bet that salmon is good too. Smart bears.
Leslie
They are so smart and mostly herbivorous, but they do love their salmon!
We used to have a lot of brown bears and they would be competing with us for the blueberries.
Leslie
Good pictures of these great wild thing!
Thank you! They are incredible~
They look very cozy in there lol 😀
It is amazing to watch them submarine under water! They keep their ears above water to listen, but watch for salmon under the water and paddle around with the pads of their feet showing. I will post photos of this. I had never seen it before!
Big hunks of mystical creatures….great photos, Cindy.
Aren’t they just amazing. I am gobsmacked by them~
I’m having the same reactions as others have already expressed here. For such a powerful animal, bears sure are adorable at the same time! Many of the top images (due to how serene the bear looks) reminds me of teddy bears! Looking forward to seeing more of them Cindy! <3
Grizzly bears, especially coastal bears are mostly herbivorous, even inland bears eat tons of plants, but coastal, fish eating bears are more mellow, generally.
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A.
You know I love your bears Alison~
You make everything groovy …… You move me. Thank you Cindy for great captures💛
Awww, thank you. Grizzly bears are groovy and incredibly moving creatures.
I’m glad you were brave enough to take these wonderful pictures because I sure wouldn’t have been. 🙂 <3
I am just pleased you enjoyed the photos of them & cheers to you Natalie!
Oh I do love to look at them and think they are awesome but they scare the heck out of me especially after two movies I’ve seen lately! Cheers to you too missy❣😘
WOW!! Awesome shots!!
They are awesome creatures!
They look great, Cindy! They must be reasonably used to seeing humans -looking straight into the lenses like that?
It is an incredible feeling looking straight into a grizzly bears eyes. They made the eye contact which is interesting isn’t it!
Amazing captures!! They more want to eat your heart than to make it sing lol. I riced they are fat for the winter.
They really don’t. They much prefer salmon, probably tastes much better! 🐟
Sounds fishy to me. 🐡
They really prefer eating🐟! Probably tastes much better!
Doubly fishy! LOL
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Wild thing indeed, you seem to embrace something wild and new every week or so 🙂 How awesome it must have been to have photographed such an animal ~ the second photo is perfect…like he is looking right into our eyes.
They have done this looking into my eyes thing, multiple times. It is incredibly thrilling. I love the wild ones Randall!
Wow I know it’s a big lens but man it looks as if you could smell their bear breath
We are on bear viewing, open walkways, that let you get quite close, about 15 feet above the bears.
Ahhh I see… Wow now that’s close… Is it still light there as of 7:39pm dark here
It is dark now at 7:56pm……
Ahhh night happens earlier at this time of year…have fun!
Any moose?
Love the title! Makes me want to start singing 😄
Sing!!!!
magnificent photos cindy
Merci beaucoup mon ami!
Looks like every time you turned around you had a bear behind. 😉 Great photos.
There are bears, river and sea otter, bald eagles everywhere, humpbacks, stellar sea lions, black bears, orcas, and on and on. I am in wild thing heaven!
Oh, these photos are so exciting and enriching and delightful and magnificent! Breathtaking! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you more Dor for sharing the excitement with me. Excitement shared is doubled and I so appreciate your love of all creatures great and small. <3 <3
Beautiful, majestic creatures. Their eyes are so expressive!! Can’t wait to see more 😊🐻
They obviously, like all mammals, feel a variety of emotions. The older bears seemed sad to me.
They have a longing in their eyes, a need to be more than just another trophy on some uncaring human wall…it’s heartbreaking, but you capturing them in photos is so beautiful…Thank you <3
Thank you for seeing and feeling what I am in their soulful eyes. I sense a sadness in most of the older bears and anger in one big one. I notice that a lot of nearby forest has been clear cut. Imagine all the things these older bears have seen people do in their life times~
:'(
They are magnificent creatures, Cindy. You have to feel awe… and a little bit of caution. 🙂 –Curt
Yes, all those things, and more. They scare me seriously when I encounter them by chance on an inland trail. But mostly I am awestruck by them.
Which is as it should be.
beautiful… cubs are very cute…..
They are the iconic teddy bear image with claws!
Wonderful Photos! How fascinating they Are these bears
That is what they are, fascinating!
Actually. I never saw anyone live, But they look so nice
Yes, their placid behavior is basically overlooked, and they have an inaccurate reputation based on rare occurance attacks.
I thought so. Thanks for confirming my idea about them
Wow! You really got up close and personal. 🙂 Incredible shots and magnificent bears. They’re beautiful, and sure love their salmon. Where exactly in Canada were you when you took these? Vancouver?
The bears are up The Knight Inlet on The Sunshine Coast of Canada, reachable essentially by float plane from Vancouver Island. You are so kind Joyce and so appreciated. Be well~
Wow for an amazing experience Cindy 🙂
They are really calling us for protection and they look so adorable.
More incredible photos Cindy!! The one with the fish in his mouth! I’m a little worried, you’d get too close to those guys! You are amazing! take care. xox
I am on wooden bear viewing platforms on native land. There is risk but I worry more about human danger~
Good to hear Cindy! The pictures were so incredible– like you were right in the middle of things! Happy photo shooting ahead! xox
What magnificent creatures!
They are.
You’re so lucky to be there, Cindy! Fantastic pictures. More, please 😊
Oh thank you, and I will happily oblige, there is so much behavior I am wittnessing, like submarining, playing, fishing technques, it goes on and on. The bald eagles are here too, snatching bear catches.
Wow! I love watching wild animals…
Wonderful photos Cindy.There’s room enough for us and for wildlife, we just need to learn a little respect and stop finding an excuse to use bullets on them all the time.We are the only species to kill for pleasure and have the nerve to consider ourselves superior.
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
I agree with everything you said and so appreciated you saying it. Humans have a lot to answer for. Thank you David.
Oh wow, Cindy, those are great shots! You must probably feel blessed to be living this close, to be really part of nature!
Awesome photos!
Great shots Cindy! I’m very jealous!
You gotta hop on a float plane and head over here. I recommend Sailcone. You basically get a cabin and a boat at your disposal~
sounds great Cindy but could not afford it unfortunately. I’ll stick to Tranquil’s stream & bears.
You live in Eden my friend, and as you know, I will be invading your space soon. Everyone here talks about Tofino with reverance, including your Prime Minister. If you live in paradise, travel becomes less of a necessity. I regret not retiring on VI, I wanted to.
I love bears, those pictures are gorgeous, so beautiufl these animals!
They are gorgeous noble creatures and I am so pleased you see this!
Sorry if I missed where it says you are based but these are amazing. I’ve been lucky enough to see 4 or 5 n close proximity before but wow what a collection. And as ever your little lens captures them so well
There are a lot of them following the salmon. They pop out of the woods seemingly from no where from all sides of the forest heading to the river.
Cool event and like the. Note on how they look into our heart!
The first photo really had us smiling – so cute – 😉
Honestly they look so disarming especially in the water playing.
disarming is a good word – but wold still keep my distance – and Canada is so beautiful
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Time for a walk on the wildside with Cindy Knoke as she brings the bear necessities to life.. Fancy standing this close to this many bears…. just make sure you can run faster that whoever you are with! Thanks Cindy for another wonderful display…
| don’t suppose I would be comfortable walking around here when the salmon aren’t running. The bears would be hungry, not fat and playful……..
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Would not be a time to go fly fishing and you would need to wear your runners…xx
Animals can see our Soul through their Eyes.
Save All Animals on Earth
You tell them and let’s make them!
Gorgeous Cindy. Just gorgeous. Racks me tight off that people enjoy shooting them.
*right*!
I can’t really think about it because the imagery is too terrible. There is such a delicate balance between humans and wild animals in their habitats. It is horrible to imagine purposely violating this for pleasure.
It’s a difficult one. People violate our environment all the time though, sadly.
Great photos… oh they look so cuddly.. and the picture of the first bear is absolutely amazing you really captured his heart and soul. What an experience that must have been to witness the bears like that.
Thank you Wendell. They are noble creatures and a privelege to be among.
Those grizzlies are scary. Your photos are awesome, Cindy.
Thank you Ranu! They definitely need to be respected and there is no room for mistakes.
oh j’aurai bien aimé voir ça de plus près
ils sont magnifiques, très jolies captures comme d’habitude Cindy
Merci du partage
passe une très bonne journée
bisous
Je suis tres heureux que vous aimez les ours. Merci mon ami et bien.
bisous~
oh je t’en prie
Passe une très bonne journée
bisous
The bear necessities
Are necessary for all of us!!! 🐻
Lovely
They are!
“You make everything groovy
Wild thing”
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Great shots. 🙂
They do make everything groovy and you should see them submarine underwater!
Such amazing photos, Cindy, just magical. But I have to say, I love the song, and will be proud to have it as my ear worm all day. “You make my heart sing, you make everything….groovy”. ☺ Thanks ??
As soon as I saw them look in my eyes, the song popped into my head. Glad you like it!
Beary pawsome, my friend! (♥Ő‿Ő)爻(Ő‿Ő♥)
🐻♥Ő‿Ő)爻(Ő‿Ő♥)🐻
So awesome!
They are!
bears cute!!!! ：）
So amazing ~~~~
Very pleased you like them!
Must be lovely to see them like that… I really love the look on the face of the first one. I even started talking to him/her 🙂
(Sometimes I’m a bit creazy like that!… 😉 )
The impulse to talk to the bear arose as your visual brain processed the meaning of his look into your eyes, before your rational brain caught up with the image. This is a skill. It means you are emotionally intuitive with bears and probably people. I had to be intensely trained to read body language as a therapist and I find the same skill set works beautifully with wild animals. Wild animals are more logical thank people too so it’s easier.
Thanks for the affirmation! 🙂 Indeed, with all kinds of animals and also people… Sometimes I earn strange looks from people if I speak about it like in my reaction to your photo 🙂 And often, especially with people, it is not an easy thing to live with, an emotional roller coster… but I wouldn’t want to miss it! Well, anyway… it is a part of me 😉
Different is generally, in my experience, far better. Hang in there.
I certainly will 🙂
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Just a short addition of something I just realized… I think that photography often works in exactly the same way for me… (not always – which is a pity 😉 ) I seem to click into a totally visual mode with my brains not even trying to catch up and it is only at the computer that I really realize what it was that I saw… Thanks for making that so clear 🙂 <3
Yes, beautifully described. This is exactly how visual intelligence works, faster than your analytic brain. I wait, and only look at the photos when I get to my laptop and sometimes think, wow, look what I saw! Laughing…..it is so much fun to free up parts of your non-analytical brain and let them it take the lead. It is akin to the result one gets from meditation, and one can feel very much “in” the moment. There are lots of ways to reach this state, but photography works for me, and it sounds like it does for you too. We are lucky to have found it.
Yes! It is a happy feeling and we are indeed lucky 🙂
Beautiful
Thank you~
Thank you so much for sharing these amazing photos of our bear friends and family…..I can’t believe they want to take them off the endangered species list! I’m so grateful people like you are in our world capturing all that is good about it and sharing it. Love to you my friend.
I am grateful for people like you who understand that all the creatures on this planet are connected to each other! <3
<3 <3 Magnificent photos of a magnificent animal, Cindy! If you ever make a wildlife calendar to sell, I would definitely buy one from you!
That is is nice. It would be awesome to make one of Canadian animals.
very impressive “teddy bears!! i <3
When you see them in the wild, you understand why people made their children teddy bears.
Majestic animals. Great pictures, Cindy.
Thank you Patricia & cheers to you~
They are amazing animals and you have captured them wonderfully. I have to do a trip like that too!
I hope you do. It will a lifetime high point and you will returned even more fiercely protective~
Great Images.
Thank you!
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They make everything groovy!!!
Wonderful! Were you on a tour? Where?
Not a tour. We went by floatplane up the Knight Inlet in British Columbia and stayed in a cabin in the middle of nowhere called Sailcone. If you like wild, you would like this.
Talk about getting off the grid! How close did you get to the bears for these shots?
Awesome photographs! You’ve captured the majesty, beauty, and strength of Ursus Arctos Horribilis perfectly…looking forward to more!
🙂
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Awesome photographs of the majestic grizzly bear…Ursus Arctos Horribilis! Cindy captures their strength and wild beauty perfectly!
I am so glad you want to see more. They were so incredibly photogenic. On my first day, my camera gave me a message, “Your battery is exhausted!” This didn’t even happen in Africa! Thank you my friend for supporting the bears and hugs to you~
I love your photo series, you got some really charming shots.
Funnily enough, grizzlies are charming! 🐻
I’m so in love. Beautiful faces. Fantastic photographs…yes…more…more…please.
Oh, thank you! I am in love too and it is so nice to be undersood! 🐻 <3 🐻
excellent shots of eye to eye contact with the grizzlies 🙂 how wonderful to see them in their natural setting, doing what they do naturally 🙂 wow…4 cubs…that’s paw…full…for the Mom 🙂
And they were all healthy appearing although there were significant differences in size. This size differential may remain throughout their life. They are varying sizes of bears, just like people not all related to how much salmon we eat! 🐟 🐟
It’s interesting to observe that when you photo them going about their business they appear quite peaceful. I suppose it’s mainly when we intrude on their peace that they become quite fierce. Or when they’re hungry…yikes!
Exactly.I have seen a lot of grizzlies and never seen them be anything but peaceful. I hope it stays this way!
Me too 🙂
I believe that must mean that man is the irritant (not the bears) as I long suspected 🙂
A lot of bear safety precautions can reduce risk considerably, like walking in groups, carrying spray, making noise, respecting viewing distance regulations, and monitoring bear body language to determine it’s comfort with your presence and distance, and not carrying food in grizzly country.
Wow! Wonderful pictures of ‘the really wild”, Cindy. It’s great they prefer salmon 🙂
I think humans must be kinda tough and gamey tasting in comparison……
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What a wonderful experience. I haven’t seen bears up in the wild since I was a kid in the rockies.
Fierce giants with the sweetest face…and those claws. (I still say the face looks so much like Bouvier de Flanders dogs…our black one lumbered and was frequently mistaken for a bear)
Yes and Newfoundlands look like big giant bears.. I told my husband they looked like would come like doggies if I called them, which ouf course would not be a good thing!!
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Thank you my friend and cheers too!
Fantastic shots, Cindy. Maybe bears are scary when they’re hungry? These guys appear tame.
I am not a bear expert but there is a difference in disposition between coastal and inland bears. A hungry bear, a surprised bear, a protective mama bear, can all obviously be quite dangerous. But mostly bears don’t bother people and a large portion of their diet is herbivorous. They have a skewed public image. I notice published photos of grizzlies tend to be fighting or ferocious images of enraged bears. I have many hundreds of photos of very placid grizzly bears. Most bears just want to avoid people, who are of course, much more dangerous than bears.
Never seen such candid pictures of bears! Awesome, Cindy!
Awww, thank you. Makes me me feel glad I posted them.
Gorgeous shots, as usual! I wanted to share my page on being Bear Smart, if you don’t mind? https://awarenesshelps.wordpress.com/bears/
Wonderful resource! Thank you for sharing. Bear Smart keeps everyone living, both bears and people! 🐻🐻
Cindy I have never seen the likes of anything like this! What draws them to this location?
Salmon and it’s remote isolation. There are no roads. No people living here. It is on native land and access is restricted and protected. It takes effort to get here and numbers of people allowed in is strictly limited. They are managing these precious bears wisely. I noticed flying in on the float plane how much surrounding forest is being clear cut though which worries me considerably. These is the second trip we have made to be here with these bears and each time it feels to me like they live in the last vestiges of Eden. A trip here makes you a conservationist, but most of the people who bother to come here, already are.
What amazing creatures they are. Your pictures are so up-close, they make my heart pound. They reduce me from predator to prey.
Yes! Brilliant Brenda. This feeling of being mutal mammal prey or predator is somehow elemental, and looking these massive predators in the eye is a life altering experience. I have been looking in wild animal eyes all around the world in zoom lens since I retired, and I am just floored by the sentience and emotion I see looking right back at me.
I do think they are smarter than people want to believe. You get great quality with your zoom lens.
Wow, incredible photos, Cindy!
It is nirvana for wildlife lovers. You would love it here Eliza~
Cindy first let me say, thank you for following me. I hope that you like my blog as well. I can’t write as much, I have to come to the internet. I forgot to bring my post I had been working on. Grizzley Adams was one of my favorite shows. And I have always loved bears and would love to get this close to them. I know they can be very dangerous, but at the same time so beautiful.
I used to envision going bear hunting, but trust me, I could not kill. I happen to love animals and people, but to be able to see bears this close would be so amazing, thanks for posting.
I’m sure I’d be gaga!
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Wow, Momma Bear, Poppa Bear, and lotsa Baby Bears… and even Teddy Bear !!! Looks like there’ll be no porridge for me tonight ! Ha !
Great pics, Cindy, except it looks to me like you’re just too close to those grizzleys. I like to be a bit more distant. I can’t run as fast as they can. Looks like you’re having a great time. Take care though ! 🙂
I would be worried if I tasted as good as all those salmon! Fortunately, I don’t.
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I feel privileged just seeing your wonderful Live Photos… Wild soul resonating x much love to you Cindy
What lovely sentiments. Thank you Barbara & cheers to you~
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Es un precioso post, amiga. Los osos tienen un aspecto y comportamiento casi humano. Las escenas de los oseznos jugando son encantadoras. Un abrazo, Cindy <3
Amo a las criaturas salvajes y se que tu tambien. Que esten bien mi amiga y abrazos para ti~ <3 <3
Love those pictures. What a treasure to be able to experience this up close.
Thank you! I am happy you enjoyed the bears. Seeing them is an incredible experience.
Amazing photos! 😯Just curious to learn how close you are to the bears to get these shots.
I will explain the bear viewing mechanics in the next post, but basically, we are on bear viewing platforms that have wooden railings that go to above waist level and were open air, about 12 feet from the bears, one fight of stairs up.
Ah, interesting. Can’t wait to read your followup post.
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This is a stunning series. All are so clear, I can see the details and their expressions. What a treat to view them. Thank you, Cindy! ,3 🙂
Thank you Amy. It sounds like you are traveling too and having a great time. Be well my friend and enjoy our beautiful world, I know you are! <3
I love wild things!!! Spectacular photos Cindy!!!
You have so many wonderful wild things here in Canada Rebecca. Cheers to you from Vancouver Island. I can see your house from my balcony………
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This post had me amazed and speechless, Cindy. Thank you for sharing the magical, scary, intimidating and tender moments of bears: up close and personal. 🙂
Thank you more for appreciating the incredible bears Robin~
I saw your title and immediately sang to myself “you make my heart sing”, then I scrolled down and saw I wasn’t the only one! Great minds and all that. The bears are gorgeous.
That song is a classic isn’t it. Glad you enjoyed!
Magnificent, they are! Wonderful pictures!
They are just that! Mgnificent creatures~
♬ ♬ ♬ “Wild thing, think I love you” ♬ ♬ ♬
But I want to know for sure……..
I love your bear photos Cindy! They look so cute and huggable! tee hee! Gorgeous animals! Hugz and happy weekend wishes! Lisa and Boo Bear
I think your bear might be scared of these bears!
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It’s very good of them to share their place with curious humans. They obviously know you are not going to try and compete for the salmon. 😉
I was told by a guide that a Richard Attenborough photographer swam in the pool to get photos of the bears from the salmon’s perspective underwater. I think this would be a job I would pass on!
Crikey!
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The poor salmon!
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Ha!
Just a bunch of cute teddy bears. Great shots of them. You either have a great camera that can get awesome distance photos or you are very brave.
You can see the viewing conditions and regulations in my next post, but they are incredibly cute, and I love my camera for bringing them up close and personal to us both!
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Fantastic bear photos, Cindy!
Grazie mille Lavinia!
These are the most amazing photos so far! Love them!
Awww, so motivating! Cheers to you Lyn~
These are just stunning Cindy!
These are amazing photos! Lucky you! Thank you for taking us along!
Having you along makes the experience richer~
☺xx
More great photos, Cindy. I do like the ones where they look directly into the camera (and heart).
This made a big impact on me too!
Nice post!
Thanks much!
Some good news! https://eyewitness718.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/tribes-make-history-with-signing-of-grizzly-treaty-in-alberta-and-greater-yellowstone-sept-30-oct-2-native-news-online/
Bless them for their wisdom and understanding of grizzly bears. I think the Native Nations should be tasked with, and given resorurces to manage the world’s grizzly populations. I read The Blackfoot Nations’ statments on grizzly bears when I was in Glacier National Park last year. They understand these animals better than any other group in the world and they have educated me. I am so grateful for them and this treaty. Thank you for sending it to me Lara.
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Gorgeous shots as usual! I have never heard of four cubs in our bears in Sweden, but I think three is not unusual.
I think four is unusual, especially with all appearing healthy~
It must have been great to watch them. There are great bear tours in Finland, and sometimes I feel I should go. But to photograph them like you do is not possible – so I keep enjoying your blog instead!
WOW! I have never seen anything like this. I counted 6 Grizzly in your one photo. Cindy!! You must have been crazy with excitement. What a beautiful place they live. Do you worry about them smelling you and coming to climb up to the perch you’re in? xK
The only time I worry around bears is on trails with limited visibility and lots of fresh scat. This happened a few days ago and we heard a chuff. That was enough for me to skee-daddle out of that beary patch. These fish gorging guzzlers didn’t show any hostility. They were enjoying their spa and salmon way too much. Inland mammal eating grizzlies tend to spook me more than coastal fish eaters, but I always want to never surprise either on a trail, which is why I sing loudly on trails and sound simply horrible. I hate running into people when I do this! Yesterday, I came upon a guy fishing and I had to apologize for the horrific din. He said, “I would much rather that then the big sow and her two cubs I just saw in those bushes behind you!”
Usually all I see on trails is a bear butt getting out of earshot of me singing Madonna’s ‘Spanish Lullaby’…..
LOL, you and Madonna! That’s cute 😀 I was hiking with some friends in Valmount BC when we spotted steaming bear scat, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Sure enough, two bears cris-crossing the cut-line. Not Grizzly, just the casual black/brown bears 😀 If I was close enough to hear a chuff, you’d be looking at my butt, every so briefly as I high-tailed it outta there. I’ll remember that singing routine for next time xk
And I know you remember how to tell grizzly poop from black bear poop……. 😉
I’m afraid to ask but it might come in handy at some point, ha! Is this like, A black bear and a grizzly bear both walk into a bar…yadda yada…LOL
Do you remember? Black bear poop is full of seeds and berries, Grizzly’s, bear spray cans and bear bells……
Poor grizzlies have such a unfair rep! 😉
LOL, no doubt…eeeek! Perhaps the ‘poor’ grizzly has hypnotized you with their beady little black eyes. 😀 ha!
Not a chance, but I think they did a Attenborough photographer who went underwater here reportedly to photograph the grizzlies from the salmon’s point of view. I sure he got some awesome shots but there is no way in h*** I am even going down to the river bank here. I am cautious around wild ones. It’s irresponsible not to be. Of course, I’m cautious around people I don’t know for the same reasons!
Good to hear! Trust your instincts, always <3
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I love all your photos of the bears. Never seen them in the wild, just rescue places so it is wonderful to see them eating that yummy red salmon.
I am so pleased you love the bears. It is wonderful to see them wild, free and healthy~ 🐻
It must have been an amazing experience to see them.
Yes it was 🐻y wonderful!! Cheers to you Kerry~
The mama with her cubs ~ a beautiful sight!
Yes indeed! Happy, healthy and free~ <3
Thank you for visiting and also for the like. 🙂
You are most welcome!
Cute!
Grazie!
Wonderful animals! Follwoing!
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Sincere thank you for supporting these magnificent and threatened creatures my friend & cheers to you!
MY Pleasure Dear 🙂
Such majestic animals. So much respect for them.
Thank you Kally. It makes me happy that you respect them დ