In this gallery you will find photos from a vacation in Alaska 2004 (Katmai). With your mousepointer over a thumbnail you will get more information. Please click the thumbnail to open the picture in a new window. All images have a size of 950x650 pixel or 120-180KB. Enjoy your holidays!
Katmai Nationalpark
The days in the Brooks Lodge and Katmai Nationalpark were the only ones with bad weather and nevertheless the absolute highlight of the tour.
It is something very special and unforgettable to experience the grizzly bears (1.000 pounds each) hunting for salmon or to observe the salmon on their difficult and final trip upriver.
Naturally some hours without clouds and rain would have suited me fine from a photographic point of view, but nature eventually does what nature wants. There is nothing we can do.
1.-8. Brooks Falls
Nature at its best
9. Camp
The small bear (if there is something like a small bear) ran around in camp, until it was
driven out
10. Walk
This bear leaves us. Good, so we don't have to run away :-)
11. Nature
You can't see it on the thumbnail - but there is a bear an this picture aw well - enjoying
the beautiful landscape of Katmai
12.-15. Brooks Falls
The second day of bear parade
16.-17. Dwan
Enticing chances for the next day at the Naknek Lake - and then it rained again
nevertheless
18. Sprung
Salmon ballet on the 3rd day
19. Scream
I had not known that the small squirrel could scream so loud