We pull over at a small creek and Fred strides off. He returns with news that there's a bear just around the corner. We try and sneak up on it, bit it hears us and strolls off into the woods, looking back as it disappears.
Across the other side of the bay is a large waterfall, so we travel over there and pull up the boats. There's the rusting remnants of an old saw mill here. A creek washes out of a gully in the hillside and flows into the bay. Salmon swim in the shallows. We scramble up towards the waterfall, but I have to stop for fear of water in my camera. Randall grabs a dead salmon out of the water and throws it at Diane. We see lots of signs of bears having been eating salmon - there's bear scat and dead salmon aplenty.
Now we're on our way to the head of the bay to look for brown bears. We pitch up on the bank and walk quietly towards where the main river flows into the bay. There are lots of seagulls flying around, and bald eagles soaring. In the water, and on the ground where the tide has receded, are hundreds of dead salmon, rotting away and attracting the gulls. A few live salmon thrash around in the shallows as the dead float past. Fred thinks we've no chance of seeing bears at this time, so we walk back to the boats and get back to Alice Cove.
Its now about 3pm so we have a late lunch, and then at 5pm Randall gives us his talk on marine mammals. He can't get the projector to work so we all watch the laptop screen. We lounge around until dinner is served about 7pm. Barney and Maxine appear with a special treat - home-made cookies. Its Max's special disappearing cookie recipe. After some mexican food for dinner I show some footage I've shot to my new friends, since I've got plenty of battery life left. We eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we fly away.
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