2005/07 Alaska Trip - North to Alaska - Fish Creek |
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It was getting to be bear-time again, so we stopped again at Fish Creek. This time we were 
lucky. Just as we arrived, a sow grizzly bear came out from under the bridge and purposefully walked along the creek on the lookout for salmon or anything else that might be edible. Luckily, she ignored all us idiots up on the observation walkway. We walked the deck keeping pace with her until she left and disappeared downstream. This was more like it!
However, although we hung in there until dark watching the eagles, there were no more bears, and not even a return visit from that one grizzly.
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Fish Creek grizzly (7.44) |
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Glacier Highway (Fish Creek,, Hyder, Bear Glacier) |
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Thursday July 14th
Early next morning we had one last chance to see the bears and John and Edna and I headed over to Fish Creek in a steady rain. This time we had no salmon, eagles, or bears, and we gave up after a couple of hours.
Camp Runamuck was surrounded by muck, with the trailer sitting in a lake, and we were soggy and mud-spattered by the time we’d hooked up the trailer.
We went shopping in Hyder’s few souvenir stores, and had no trouble crossing the border back into Canada. The border guards seem to get confused by this party of three Brits and a Canadian, none of whom lives in their country of birth. Hyder doesn’t have a sewer system, so we had to dump our trailer tanks in Stewart. Apparently the campground has to pay Stewart a percentage of its income for this service.
The rain continued on our way back over the mountains, past the Bear Glacier, to Meziadin Junction, and north on the Cassiar Highway.
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