Coastal Brown Bears and Puffins

After a good nights sleep, I woke up well was still dark out and found that I had no electricity in the room. Come to find out the lodges electricity comes from a generator and from solar and they charge excess into the storage batteries. Depending on how much activity there is in the evening after they shut off the generator once the batteries are on empty electricity is shut off and there is an innate to love next morning when the generator is restarted.

As a groove light out I look outside my window and saw that it was going to be a nice day with a nice sunrise, so I grabbed my camera with my 18 to 105 lens and went upstairs to the kitchen and dining room area, grabbed a cup of coffee, and went on to the porch to take pictures of the sunrise.

 

After a delicious breakfast, gathering up our equipment, we went out to find and photograph the bears. There was a multitude of activity including bears catching fish, fighting, cubs eating and playing.

A bald eagle flew over the beach and landed and started to eat a salmon that was left, until one of the bears decided to go over and take the salmon back.

while we were photographing the bears , we also observed planes coming in from Anchorage bringing another group to the lodge. actually this group was supposed to come in yesterday, but because of the weather they couldn't fly out.

After lunch we photographed the bears until around 4 PM, when we boarded the boat to take a trip to photograph puffins at "Puffin Island". Normally you could land on the island but because of the surf this was impossible. Traveling around the backside of the island made the water much, but there was still rough seas hitting the rocks, so we did all our photography from the boat.

Besides the puffins, there were Double-Crested Cormorants, Murre's and Herring Gulls present.

Looking toward the shoreline, there was a excellent view of the Redoubt Volcano, which is one of the two active volcanoes in Lake Clark National Park.

We returned back to the lodge in time for supper. After which we rested and talked, downloaded pictures and finished up another day in Alaska