Stewart, Sunday & Monday 2nd - 3rd August

It rained overnight and was still raining when we left Dease Lake for the 400kms drive to Stewart where we were camping for two days. En route we had seen bears but often just a glimpse and rarely long enough to get a decent photo. But en route, walking down the side of the road was a young male black bear we considerately didn't ran off into the trees when we approached (in the bus of course).

 We also stopped opposite a lake in front of a glacier tumbling down from the ice fields about us, plus another selfie.

 We crossed the Canadian US border back into Alaska to visit Fish Creek which is full of spawning salmon. It is also a good place to watch bears as they are attracted to the easy fishing opportunities.

We didn't see any bears so we continued up the road the see a glacier.

On our way back past Fish Creek we stopped again but stull no bears. We were determined to see some feeding so we decided to have an early evening meal and return as bears are most active either early morning or dusk.

Camping can be hard work, Faye and Colin passing some time in camp before returning to Fish Creek.

Our tenacity and patience were finally rewarded for around 9.30pm a grizzly came out of the forest and started catching fish. He was a long way off and the light was too poor for ordinary cameras but we had seen our grizzly.