Video-Mokai & Bears Part 3-2012

Hunkydory · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:20 am Post subject: Video-Mokai & Bears Part 3-2012

This is last of three video's of our time spent in Red Bluff Bay, Alaska in 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk--NmKviU&feature=g-upl

Jay

Ashley Lynn · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the video Jay..excellent>>

Barry Rietz · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:23 pm Post subject: Bear Country !!!

Some fantastic footage Jay, thanks for sharing it with us. Were you on a "day trip" at the time you did the "Part III" video, or did you find a safe place to camp along the river? Were you able to notice what the bears were busy foraging?

Hunkydory · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:05 am Post subject:

Barry, I would leave the C-Dory for several hours up to most of some days, but no overnight camping. On the outer coast of Chichagof Island & some areas of Baranof, many of the locals won't even walk on shore due to the large number of bears. I wouldn't set up a tent & spend the night at Red Bluff Bay without an electric fence set up & even then I think it would make for a nervous night & I've spent many nights in bear country by myself, many without even a tent.

The bear I backed off from acted & looked like a even younger bear I saw there in 2010. It bluff charged a fisherman & I had a very close encounter with it too that year. It was the most aggressive this year of all the bears I saw in Red Bluff Bay with me & around the other bears too except for the big male & he wasn't aggressive with me.

For the most part during late spring they are constantly eating sedge grass. Then its the salmon berries & sedge grass & finaly when the fish run its mainly fish. I think a occational deer & other bears along with many other plant varities & bugs round out the diet.

Jay