Brown Bear Viewing at Pack Creek, Alaska
Our Guide Dan Kirkwood Mom and yearling cubs With our small group of five passengers this week we set up a special surprise visit to the Pack Creek bear viewing area on Admiralty Island. I have been wanting to go to this place ever since I started working in Alaska. The meadow at Pack Creek shows up in almost every bear documentary filled with bears. We knew that visiting in June wouldn’t be crowded since it was in between mating time in May, and the salmon runs in July and August. But we thought we would stop in , check it out, and see if we got lucky. We had the manager of Pack Creek Bear Tours , Dan Kirkwood, fly in to show us the ropes and introduce us to the bears we might be lucky enough to come across. He has spent the last five summers guiding daily fly in bear viewing trips to Pack Creek. It looked like our lucky day when we awoke to a mom and two cubs playing and strolling along the shoreline. They stayed all during our breakfast, and then when ...