This May and June we sailed north to the Broughtons over a period of 5 weeks. One of our main purposes in this trip was to view bears at Glendale Cove in Knight Inlet. My brother kindly lent us a full frame digital SLR and 24-105 lens, which we used to capture the following pictures. We took these from our rowing dinghy while floating in 6 inches of water. Because of Covid-19 we had the place to ourselves with one shrimp boat anchored nearby getting ready for the season and a couple of wardens who were looking after the closed up bear watching lodge.
Because we did not bring a telephoto lens these images have all been cropped using RawTherapee (an open source raw photo editor). Apologies for the graininess of some, which, despite the full frame SLR, was not helped by low light (it was raining) and cropping.
The bears photographed were a mother and 2 yearling cubs. At one point, one of the youngsters decided to chase off a nearby adult and the whole family eventually gave chase. The wardens told us that this female adult was the dominant bear out of the seven bears we saw in the estuary.
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Baby giving chase to adult who is out of frame to right
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The bears mostly ignored us. Of the hundreds of photos I took, this is one of the few where the mother is looking at us.
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Detail from above
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Rani takes a movie of the family
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The next day we saw the same family feeding on high protein grass in the meadows near the shore. The weather was better but we could not get as close in our dinghy.
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