Greg's Summer Bear Adventure End of Day 1 McNeil River

This first afternoon at the falls, turned off very warm.

 Greg ended up with a pretty bad sunburn. The bag containing his sunscreen and other important items was accidentally loaded back on the float plane when it left last night.

Even the bears seemed to take notice and when they weren't actually fishing,

 many of them just laid in the cool waters of McNeil River.

 The later and later it got, the more bears arrived at the falls. By the time we left around 8 p.m., there were 29 bears gathered at the falls.

It was truly unbelievable.

 I can only imagine how awed they must have all been when their record of 74 bears at one time was set a few years ago.

Our trip to and from the falls was tide dependent. Tonight, however, we only had to hike about halfway back as the high tide allowed a boat to pick us up and return us to camp. It was quite an amazing day!