Lake Eva, Hanus Bay At Peril Strait, Baranof Island, Southeastern Alaska
A gray day met us at Peril Strait, on the northern limits of Baranof Island. We had just visited Sitcoh Bay, and found lovely wet forest and foggy beaches. At the beach that led to the path to Lake Eva, we started a series of short and longer hikes into the almost pure old-growth forest, as well as kayaked later. On these hikes we met an unexpected visitor who received a surprise, just as we did. The brown bear came nonchalantly walking towards us, suddenly realized there was something in the pass, came to see, and noticed something was quite different. So he ambled off into the forest, to reappear on the path quite a bit ahead of us. Again we had a few opportunities for taking pictures of it, just as it set off walking down the path we were taking. And then went into the forest and disappeared.
The hikes were through a lovely wet temperate rainforest, of Sitka spruce and western hemlock. As we walked along the stream we saw quite a few salmon, and some interesting birds, such as bald eagles, chickadees, Steller’s jays and sapsuckers. After trundling through first-class Alaska mud for a while, we reached Lake Eva, where we saw giant Sitka spruce, as well as loons in the lake, making their sad, eerie call, once and again.
By midday we were all back on board, and had taken off to search for more marine mammals, and sail deeper into Peril Strait, that water roadway that leads to our final destination tomorrow: Sitka, or the capital of Russian America, called by them New Archangel.
A gray day met us at Peril Strait, on the northern limits of Baranof Island. We had just visited Sitcoh Bay, and found lovely wet forest and foggy beaches. At the beach that led to the path to Lake Eva, we started a series of short and longer hikes into the almost pure old-growth forest, as well as kayaked later. On these hikes we met an unexpected visitor who received a surprise, just as we did. The brown bear came nonchalantly walking towards us, suddenly realized there was something in the pass, came to see, and noticed something was quite different. So he ambled off into the forest, to reappear on the path quite a bit ahead of us. Again we had a few opportunities for taking pictures of it, just as it set off walking down the path we were taking. And then went into the forest and disappeared.
The hikes were through a lovely wet temperate rainforest, of Sitka spruce and western hemlock. As we walked along the stream we saw quite a few salmon, and some interesting birds, such as bald eagles, chickadees, Steller’s jays and sapsuckers. After trundling through first-class Alaska mud for a while, we reached Lake Eva, where we saw giant Sitka spruce, as well as loons in the lake, making their sad, eerie call, once and again.
By midday we were all back on board, and had taken off to search for more marine mammals, and sail deeper into Peril Strait, that water roadway that leads to our final destination tomorrow: Sitka, or the capital of Russian America, called by them New Archangel.
