It’s finally Friday . . .
It has been a long crazy week full of so many different things it has been hard to catch my breath. There was a bit of travel . . . a ton of paperwork, a few meetings with a couple of strange things thrown in for good measure. Over the last couple of weeks I have seen some interesting things . . . quite a few Kodiak brown bears in both Larsen Bay and Old Harbor. In Old Harbor there were two groups in the area where we are building a new water treatment plant. It is a marshy area and one group was a large mama bear teaching her three cubs to swim in the estuary while close by (about a hundreds yards away) was another teaching her two cubs to catch fish close to shore. On either side of those two groups was a male bear on the bank sunning itself or rolling around on its back. Several of us watched them while waiting for the weather to improve so we could fly out. It was pretty incredible to see. In Old Harbor there was a large bear that was just off the road in the s