Fish and Bears, oh my!

Trip Start Jun 21, 2008
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Trip End Jul 04, 2008


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Where I stayed
Crooked Creek RV Park
(Kasilof hotels)

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Another few great days in Alaska.  It is interesting the further South you go, the colder it gets.  Highs have been in the mid 50's with 40's at night.  Marty was fishing for Salmon, with hundreds of others, on the Russian River when a Grizzly Bear approached the side of the bank.  Marty was directly across on the other side.  People started screaming and the Ranger sounded the horn.  The Grizzly looked at the screaming people and got on his hind legs and growled then went back into the woods.  Too bad I wasn't there with my video camera!  The locals have told us that they have strict restrictions now on shooting bears and they feel there are too many of them. 

We took a 6 mile hike to the Russian River Falls.  It was beautiful!  What is so amazing were the hundreds, maybe thousands of Salmon swimming up the Falls to spawn.  The water current is so strong.  Out of the average 3000 hatched eggs only 2 Salmon will actually make it back to spawn.  Marty is in absolute heaven.  The King's are twice as big as the Red's from the Kenai.  Hopefully as I am typing this, he is hooking one.

We are on our way to Homer and hopefully will have stories of catching huge Halibut!
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