Day 50, Haines to WhiteHorse YT ( & Bears)

 Today is Day 50 of our 60 day tour, it has been a bit of a whirlwind and a great way to see Alaska. Today we drove 255 miles from Haines AK to Whitehorse YT, it was a relatively easy drive with great scenery and smooth roads. Look back we first arrived in Whitehorse on July 31 rst. there has been a noticeable change in the foliage. Like everywhere else in the area fall has arrived. the treed are changing and the days are getting shorted.

Over the following ten days we will be moving on seven days, we have @ 1700 miles to go to get to the end of the tour in Ferndale WA. There will be time for sightseeing along way.

Yesterday 9/3 we had a free day with no Fantasy scheduled events. Beth and I had a chance to sleep in and a nice quite relaxed breakfast in the coach. Late morning we went on a self guided walking tour of  Historic Fort Seward. Let's just say it was not what is was cracked up to be. We returned to the coach for lunch and a little rest before venturing out to Chilkoot Lake State Park to see the bears.

Chilkoot Lake is a 25 to 30 minute drive   

north of  Haines, we were told that's where the bears hangout. the lake drains down the Chilkoot river to the Fjord and the salmon
returning from the sea to spawn are restricted by a weir. Seems like easy picking for the bears. We arrived at the park a little bit after two and met two couples from our tour. They had been waiting for more than an hour and not seen a bear. We parked the car and
setup out stake out position just upriver from the weir. After 15 minutes the other couple had  enough and returned to the campground. It wasn't ten minutes later when this guy came strolling up the far side of the river.

He got right to it getting his diner in short order. He seemed proud of himself showing all the observers his catch.

This was his second course.

This is what happens when the Wild Life Tour bus shows up.

Darn Tourist!







The above bear had his fill and went back   

into the forest and then this guy showed up. He wasn't interested in fishing he mostly just went swimming and splashed around in the river when bear three showed up.

We were told by a local that this bear was a sow and a regular at the weir. She slowly made her way up the river to the weir to have her dinner.

I have a video of bear #1 catching his dinner. I have not been able to get it to work here. I will post it on Facebook along with the video of the sea lions from the other day.




That's all for now.