July 6 grizzly trip

Today we arrived to find a 7 year female rolling rocks on the beach in from our float, everyone just stood on the float in awe of a grizzly bear having breakfast so close. As she moved around the point we loaded into the big skiff and quietly motored over to the cedar tree point to find Sarah and her 4 month cub also rolling beach rocks, the tide was perfect for eels and isopods. We watched the cub imatate Mom by rolling the small rocks. Behind us across the bay a black bear came out, so we moved over there to watch the black bear eat barnacles from under a hanging log. We continued towards the estuary where we witnessed an osprey fishing, and diving for flounders. We spotted 3 more grizzly bears in the back of the estuary but the tide was too low to allow a good look. After lunch on the float the tide started to rise, so we loaded into 2 big skiffs, to spread out the load, and managed to get up the river mud flats as far as the Indian village point, we could see the old fish weir sticks poking out of the river bank where the First Nations people trapped their salmon in the fall. A small group of 3 black tail coastal mule deer shared the scene with 3 grizzly bears, a true West Coast experience!
BEARS:

2 black bears

BIRDS:
numerous bald eagles
rhinoceros auklets
marbled murrelets
Caspian terns
Mew gulls

MARINE MAMMALS:
harbour seals
harbour porpoise
dolphins scattered
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Grizzly bear viewing report from Tide Rip Grizzly Tours, Telegraph Cove, British Columbia.
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