Last summer (2006) I made my third trip to Alaska. The highlight was a sockeye fishing trip to Wolverine Creek, where I spent more time shooting video and taking photographs of bears than fishing. Three of the bears passed within 15 feet of our boat.
Check out the claws on this momma bear:
I shot about 90 minutes of high definition video that day and made a 5-minute program for web viewing. It is a Quicktime file, if you would like to see it:
http://silvertip.net/alaska/alaska.html
We saw quite a few moose:
And here are three bears approaching our boat at Wolverine Creek:
I know this is the "light" board, but I should mention that climate change is already affecting these valuable habitats in Alaska. I will save the "heavy" stuff for the other board.
Check out the claws on this momma bear:
I shot about 90 minutes of high definition video that day and made a 5-minute program for web viewing. It is a Quicktime file, if you would like to see it:
http://silvertip.net/alaska/alaska.html
We saw quite a few moose:
And here are three bears approaching our boat at Wolverine Creek:
I know this is the "light" board, but I should mention that climate change is already affecting these valuable habitats in Alaska. I will save the "heavy" stuff for the other board.
