This trip in late September/early October was with Maple Leaf Adventures on the MV Swell, a 1912 converted tugboat. We cruised the coast between Balla Bella and Kitimat exploring the islands and fjords of the Great Bear Rainforest, home of the rare Spirit Bear.






















Side-eye

































Grizzly Cubs Swimming






Galloping Grizzly


































Spriti Bear





Shaking Spirit












Red-necked Phalarope


















Spirit Bear
The Spirit Bear, or White Bear as the First Nations people call them, are a rare subspecies of the American Black Bear.

My Digital Photo Art portrait painted in Photoshop from one of the photos I took

















