Amber

She was swimming between rock faces to small rocky landings so we followed from a distance in the guides boat. As we rounded the corner the boat got caught in a strong current which pulled us towards her, the guide expertly navigated away from her right away... best photo op I had the entrie trip.

Miles of Mussels

A young female Brown Bear surveys the endless bed of mussels on the central west coast.

A dangerous game of fetch.

Kidding of course :) This is Amber she is one of the orginial cubs in the Disney film Bears. Alive an well living in the wild. Her brother Scout is in the vacinity they have been seen together on occasion.

The land of plenty.

A young female Coastal Brown Bear is surrounded by food, walls of muscles line the rocks, crab and rock eel are at her feet under rocks.

Coastal Brown Bear Cubs

The cubs are 1 1/2 years old, seen with their Mother who was a little to the left of the frame. A very low tide offered unlimited meal opportunities for the bears this day, rock turning exposed eels and crabs.

Brown Bear

This is a second year cub we found foraging the tidal area with its Mother and sibling. I can remember hoping and praying the cub would look up.

Grizzly

We knew the Grizzlies were coming across Johnstone Straight by swimming from small island to island. If that was the case if we just might be lucky enough to find one which we did from my friend Anthony's boat. We didn't get too close for obvious reasons a big crop on this shot.

Running at us?

A heart stopping moment when we saw what was my first Grizzly on Vancouver Island. It came out of a ditch and started running in our direction I'm thinking at that moment would bear spray stop this big fella? Turns out there was a black bear cub it had in its sights, not interested in us ...whew. We yelled at it and it reluctantly departed, the bear cub stayed near us for the remainder of our time there it knew it was safer with us than without.