A black bear again looking for food up the slopes…

This time it was a brown bear. The mama bear was huge and had three cubs following it. We were a comfortable mile and a half away in the water…

It was a black bear that had started swimming about a couple of miles away and swam to the other side of the shore…

Speaking of lazy sea lions and cormorants, here are a couple of sea gulls that refused to fly. They just sat on the ice floe that broke off from the glacier and kept floating along…

Apparently the tallest coastal peak (at over 15,000 feet). I need to fact check this one…

The birds flying with their shadows against that of the clouds in the crystal clear water…

During the boat ride, we spotted and picked up four folks in canoes. They had been in the water and islands for eight days. Apparently, this is a common pick up point for people who go out canoeing and then after they are done, they wait here to be picked up. After coming back from the boat trip, met another couple who were packing up their canoes to set out in the evening…

I was asking the folks in the canoes what kind of wildlife they had seen. Apparently, their sightings ranged from bears to wolves to wolverines. I think I am going to stay back in my boat 🙂

I think they are best friends with the sea lions. They too, just sat there lazily, instead of diving for fish…