Brown Bear, Black Bear, Big Bear and Babies
While on our vacation in Alaska, I didn’t expect to see the bears. All the reading that I had done said that the bears usually don’t appear until July and August, when the salmon begin to run. It was early June when we saw the first bear, a Grizzly or brown bear. They are actually one and the same. She appeared on our first day in Alaska, during a flight seeing tour of the Misty Fjord. She was large, weighing in around 300 pounds. She had three cubs, which is somewhat unusual for this species. Although they have been noted to birth as many as six, it is most common that they will have just two cubs at a time. The cubs seemed a good size, so I think they were about a year old.
