Botany Black Bears

I have seen some bears walking salmon streams before, but the ones in Botany Inlet, Tasu, Haida Gwaii have got to be some of the largest fattest creatures I've seen for a long time. The creeks here had a good run of salmon and these bears knew it. The Chum salmon return back to their natal streams where the bears, eagles and other animals gorge themselves on solid protein and fatty fish for the winter. I was hoping to get a photo of a bear with a salmon in its mouth and happened upon the above picture. Its not a close up but one can see the amazing landscape we get to hike while enumerating the salmon streams. The day in Tasu, we saw 11 Black bears and 4 Transient Orca in the area.