Thursday, August 28, 2014

SSE Alaska, BC wilds

A surprise jewel:  rusted, corroded, mossy, abandoned. Hyder Alaska doesn't offer much, except glaciers, NPS sponsored bear viewing on fish creek, fresh seafood to eat, and fishing on the relatively calm waters of Portland fjord/canal. Located next to Stewart,BC, just 40 miles or so off the north/south cassiar highway. The drive features bears and glaciers. Flat land meets salt here, within a straight sided valley.

Plenty of real photographers (as opposed to what i do with the camera) return there each year for the bears and wolves. The pink salmon and chum return for their own reasons.

We had to negotiate a traffic scrum back on the cassiar. I was rewarded with a close view (12 ft) of a grizzly emerging from a creek culvert as I stopped there on the bridge.

Down the highway I realized we had not bought gas before leaving Stewart. Thank goodness we'd stashed some extra in back for the Dempster highway run.  Our eventual fill up cost $109 US.

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