The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

It continued to rain today although it did let up at some very opportune times. The Stewart - Hyder area is known for four things — a great Canada Day / 4th of July celebration that lasts for 4 days, bear viewing, the Salmon Glacier and the Toaster Museum. We missed the Canada Day celebration but we did see bears and the glacier. We tried to get into the Toaster Museum but the sign said under renovations and we couldn’t talk the woman into letting us in. The narrow and winding road the was built to get to mines follows one of the glacier valleys. Unfortunately, we had low cloud cover but did manage to see this very large glacier as the clouds shifted about. The bear viewing was more successful. Us, plus at least 60 other people stood on the viewing boardwalk in the rain waiting for a bear. All of a sudden a small male grizzly appeared — man did it get quiet. He sauntered through the creek picking up fish and eating them. Luckily, the rain stopped. About 5 minutes later a second larger male grizzly appeared at the other end of the viewing area. This guy munched on some berries and a fish. After about a half hour the two bears wandered off. Then the rain came back with a vengeance so we left — we had seen a couple of bears. Driving away from the viewing area there was a traffic jam. It turned out that the traffic was stopped watching a young bear cub thinking about and finally crossing the road — I hope his mom was waiting for him.


The Salmon Glacier (about 1100 Metres ASL), partly hidden by cloud layers




The first bear we saw was this smaller one


Then alone came this much larger male



This young bear was trying to cross the road when we left