- Watch another grizzly fish at Fish Creek
- Defy continuous rain and wait
- Update your diary and Skype
- Watch a fishing grizzly again in the evening
Shortly after 6 o'clock I get up to drive to Fish Creek. On the viewing platform there along the stream, bears can be seen fishing every day during the main season. Primarily grizzlies can be observed, every now and then a smaller black bear can be seen and if you are really lucky you will even see a fishing wolf.
It's raining lightly, the stream is now - unlike on my last visit - full of salmon. But nothing is happening at the moment. I'll just wait to see who wants to fill his stomach at the banquet. When I go to the toilet for a moment, a grizzly comes trotting along in the side stream there. He skillfully fishes out a fat chunk and eats it in the undergrowth. It's impressive how well the big animal can hide in this bush. It follows the course of the stream up to the lagoon. There you can taste berries in the bushes. There are also gulls, herons and crows, which are feasting on the remains of the salmon carcasses. I'm waiting under the protection of a tree in a rain jacket and cowboy hat. To do this, I read on my Kindle. When nothing else can be seen until noon and the rain continues to increase, I decide to drive back to the campground. Here I skype briefly with Niki and write a diary.
Only when a few short dry sections interrupted the rain in the late afternoon do I drive the almost five kilometers out to Fish Creek. After waiting for a while, a brown bear comes marching along the stream. From the lagoon he crosses the sidewalk with the amazed visitors and lazily picks up a huge dead male salmon. Next to the massive she-bear you can only see how big these salmon actually get. She eats it in the nearby bushes and then goes looking for a fish herself. The bear looks pretty full and is only going about it half-heartedly. He stands lazily in the middle of the stream and hardly likes to move. In any case, none of the nimble salmon can be caught this way. After a while he moves unsuccessfully from Dannen. And I drive back to the campground and quickly cook pasta.
