Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park is the best place in the world to watch brown bears feasting on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. This week, Alaska’s Katmai National Park fired up their bear cam.
Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park is the best place in the world to watch brown bears feasting on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. This week, Alaska’s Katmai National Park fired up their bear cam.
Thanks, guys. Every year at this time, me and a few tipped-off British friends watch the far-off Brooks Falls bears, with one of those friends, like me, knowing a very similar-looking fall on a river in west Wales, the Teifi, in its late 1960s – ’80s heyday, when the falls sometimes turned blue, silver, white and black with running Atlantic salmon of all sizes, every spring, summer and fall after a rise in river levels after rain, plus, at this time of year, late June to mid July, filled with sometimes hundreds-strong shoals of all-sizes sea-trout. No bears though, just us, out day and night, with rods, first having a go at the arriving fish in the pools a distance below the falls, then following a run during the following days (and, later, nights, with fly for the settled and no longer running sea-trout) for 30 miles upriver. Not the case now, though, with the great runs largely a thing of a not so very distant past, as they are in many rivers wherever might flow.
Back to the bears….