October 9, 2025
I have been having an amazing trip through Canada and Alaska, but if I had to point to a disappointment it would be not seeing many wild animals. I finally have my chance to see a grizzly bear in the wild.
As I mentioned in the previous post, these photos were taken from a bridge at the north end of Lutak Inlet, about 10 miles north of Haines.
I spotted the bear swimming across the Inlet from left to right.
Here is the photo I posted, taken with my iPhone camera.
The rest of these were taken with my digital camera, with a zoom lens.
He appeared to be sitting down in the river, scratching the left side of his head:
He soon brought up a dead fish, which he proceeded to consume.
This is a photographer I had seen coming down the road as the bear was walking down towards the water. I spoke with him later and he is one of the people who told me that this bear is a “regular” and is seen just about every day.
He is possibly what the bear was looking at in the photo above.
He started walking towards the shore. You can see where his hair is matted down from being in the water. I read somewhere that bears don’t like to get their ears wet, which is probably why he kept his head above water.
He shook off most of the water and started walking south, away from the bridge I was on.
He reached the house I mentioned in the prior post – which was pretty far away from the bridge I was on.
He finally turned around and started walking back north. Shortly after I took this photo he turned to his left and I lost sight of him.
I then spotted a bald eagle near the waterway between the Inlet and Chilkoot Lake, north of the bridge I was on. It was eating a fish that it had apparently caught.
I will drive back up here in the morning after I stop at the ferry terminal to confirm that I am in town and will be there for boarding. They understood, and told me what time I needed to be back.
I was the first car in line when I got back.
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