Steaming South !

Final day is a nonstop cruise to Vancouver where we are scheduled to arrive around 06:00 this morning. So today’s highlights are returning the muck boots, repacking the suitcases (leave outside cabin before 23:59 tonight) and checking final disembarkation instructions. We have completed the enter Canada registration, not really designed for our type of in transit visit, but did accept Vancouver airport as our Canadian address for the next 14 days.
We were supposed to be passing a photo opportunity at 07:00, believe it was called Seymour Narrows although I can’t find it anywhere on the map, but at the appointed time there was no land in sight. (Suspect the entry was a program error, as another item talked about being the first day aboard ship so I’m guessing a couple day1 south to north voyage details were copied in without thinking). So have to make do with a picture of a reddish dawn photo taken from the balcony and will use the the picture allowance to include some more Anan photos from a couple of days ago.
To cover Ian’s query, the video was some of the action on the bank opposite the platform where the bears would catch a salmon then move away to eat. That side seemed to have multiple tunnel/cave routes down the hillside an by the stream. It was different on the other side, there were some sheltered spots where the salmon would congregate out of the fierce flow of the mid stream. We spent a long time watching a bear by one these spots sitting on the bank, grabbing one of the waiting salmon, eating the few oily rich parts it wanted, then discarding the leftovers before reaching in for another salmon. Very adaptive to the different topography.Read more