Growley Bear Bed & Breakfast Gustavus

... We circled back, hopped in the kayaks, and headed back to the Sea Wolf. We sailed to the Idaho Inlet for the night anchor. It is named after the first tourist boat to come into this area. The Idaho apparently didn't understand the nature of glaciers. They sailed into the inlet, getting stuck in the silt. Although they evacuated the passengers at some point, it took them several years to finally extracate the boat.

... We paddled slowly, as not to miss a single organism. Kimber did a lot of explaining, regarding the geology, marine biology, and tides. It was all rather fascinating. Once we finished the east wall, we crossed the cove to a river outlet. Kimber pointed out a black bear, but we missed seeing it. Instead, everyone paddled ahead, while Debbie and I took our time. We were rewarded with harbor porpoise. Everyone else was out of range, when the porpoise neared our canoe. The kept a safe ...

... Kimber decided to point us back to the boat. It was a little work to get back. There was a lot of ice to detour, as well as currents. I had to ask Deb to stop paddling at one point, because every time she raised her our the spray came off and hit me in the face. The water was extremely cold, but that wasn't as annoying as having to clean my glasses every few minutes, while trying to keep my camera dry, while trying to paddle, while trying ...

... sun, warm weather, beautiful boat, and Jimmy buffet, I feel like I'm in Mexico!" He agreed it was a great day. Apparently they are having unseasonably warm and dry weather this year, particularly today.<br> The anchor came up, and we chugged back into the bay. Heading north, the wind began to pick up and the temperature dropped precipitously. I ended up putting on my long underwear top, windbreaker, and gloves. It continued to cool, as we turned west into the inlet ...

... down to the dock outside of town. On the way, we passed the 36 par, golf course. At first I just thought it was someone's backyard. Then I realized there was more than one flag. The course was carved out of someone's alfalfa field, where waving stalks of grass stood, a mowed fairway took shape. Each tee box had its own piece of rusted farm equipment to mark it. I pulled the bike to the side of the rode and made sure I had a few good ...

... and round. <br><br>Shannon and I agreed the whale watching was the perfect break for our arms also - we didn't exactly realize how tiring reeling in 300 feet of line with a fish on the end, well most of the time a fish on the end, would be! <br><br>We had some light rain off and on but overall, it was a beautiful day to be in the middle of the water, surrounded by ...

... for the past four hours. He only stopped when a whale watching boat stoppped to take a look. He's back now and entertaining us all. We've also been visited by half a dozen sea lions, one of whom is waving now, and dozens of whales just passing by. The tide pools have some great anenomes that the boys have enjoyed prodding as young boys must. Paradise...with bugs... Pictures to follow.

... created specifically by the cruise ship industry in collaboration with the local natives. On the good side, their weren't any diamond stores here! :-) We did get some good viewings of bald eagles around town, which was pretty cool.

... Après avoir confirmé nos places, c'est l'inspection de sécurité avec tout le tralala incluant l'enlèvement des chaussures. Puis l'embarquement, puis l'attente à bord que tous ces baggages soient embarqués. Imaginez-vous que les personnes qui s'occupent de la billetterie, sont aussi les mêmes qui s'occupent de la sécurité et qui enfin montent les baggages à bord. !.30hrs après le début des procédures, nous nous envolons pour un vol de 11 minutes. Je l'ai compt ...

... and last fish caught in four hours was a slightly smaller king than mine and it was caught by Jack's wife. Our other three fisher persons were skunked and while I caught the first one, it was the last I got to fish as the boat could only have three poles (for six fisherman!). Don't know how I got caught in that "fishing" experience but I hope it does not happen again. It was an expensive lesson. It was fun, sort of; it would have been a disaster if I ...