As soon as we were leaving this morning it started raining. We drove out the the Bald Eagle Preserve but once there we read that they have over 3,500 eagles there in Fall and Winter. Guess what, we didn’t see any Bald Eagles, waste of a drive. We see more where we are camping.
We drove back into town then drove out to the cannery. Some guys had told Dave about the place. You can do a self guided tour of the cannery, which we did but the fishing boats were out so the only thing going on was some kids taking the shells off of shrimp for Big Al’s food trailer in town. The rain had stopped and it turned hot and sunny, was sorry we were wearing long pants and long sleeves shirts now.
We then started driving out to the State Park, going towards some Geo Caches. One we found was at a art store/house and it was in an outdoor Benjou, which is Japanese for bathroom. The cache was hanging from the back of the mirror. We then drove to the State Park and went hiking looking for another cache. Once you got through the woods you came upon Rock Beach, would have never known it was there. We didn’t find the cache but what a beautiful site too see. We kept yelling as we were going through the woods to make sure we didn’t run into any bears.
We then drove back into town to True Value, Dave needed something for the RV then on to Big Al’s for lunch. The kids that were taking the shells off the shrimp said to try it out, it was pretty good. It was “OK” and affordable couldn’t really tell the difference between the salmon or the halibut. It is a cute little trailer and cruise ship passengers were there. Forgot to mention during the night a cruise ship parked out in the harbor.
We drove out again to where the guys were fishing but didn’t see any bears this time but we did find the Bald Eagles nest but didn’t see the babies. When we got back to the RV we saw everyone outside looking up the beach and they told us a Grizzly Bear and cub had just run back up the beach. Darn, we missed it.
Dave then cleaned the lower half of the RV, and I relaxed after putting the laundry away. Later in the afternoon the grizzly showed up again, alone and was on the beach. This isn’t good for us, a grizzle showing up 2x’s in one afternoon. Nice to see but as long as it stays at the beach part we are OK but if it should come up the hill, where we are, that is not good. A small RV near us has young kids and a dog so when they got back I did warn them, so they don’t let the kids run around on their own.
After dinner, of Halibut that we caught, we walked outside and I looked over the edge of the cliff, where we are staying and the grizzly bear was back. I yelled to everyone and they all came out with their camera’s. Was really something to see, the bear ran up the beach, stood up and was smelling the air, poor thing is hungry. Back 3 times in one afternoon is not good. When it left this time the owner of the RV Park said it had broken into the restaurants trash and asked us to please put all of our BBQ’s and trash away tonight. The bear will keep coming back if it finds things to eat.
No fire tonight, just sat and talked to a couple until around 10pm then it was time to go in. The mosquitoes were coming out because it got so warm today, but it was still so light outside. Oh well, close the shades and call it a night in an hour or two.
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