{"id":8134,"date":"2026-09-19T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:07:49","slug":"alaska-the-great-salmon-saga-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8134","title":{"rendered":"Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5480_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, the plural probably isn&#8217;t really applicable here. There was only one bear.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information on the hatchery&#8217;s website, when there are a lot of bears around, access is closed to people, to avoid conflicts. But there were plenty of people, and there was just one young black bear. And he wasn&#8217;t bothered by anyone. Though, to be fair, he wasn&#8217;t bothering anyone either. He simply pretended there was nobody around.<br \/>\nHe snagged a fish right in the thick of the salmon mayhem, had himself a little snack,<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5466_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/>, <\/p>\n<p>and then went for a stroll around the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5458_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5461_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5482_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"649\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5487_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5492_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"712\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little video from Peer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/POGHpRUaNVY\" width=\"1008\" height=\"567\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=28840026612271774&#038;set=a.494765153891299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss on FB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2026\/Travel\/Alaska\/Valdez\/DSC_5480_bear.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, the plural probably isn&#8217;t really applicable here. There was only one bear.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information on the hatchery&#8217;s website, when there are a lot of bears around, access is closed to people, to avoid conflicts. But there were plenty of people, and there was <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8134\">Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Bears<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,589,3,411],"tags":[591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}