There’s almost zero visibility when we awake this morning, so I have plenty of time to have breakfast before I go paddling.  Eventually the fog lifted and I only had to deal with intermittent  light showers.

As I was getting suited up, a Hartley Bay grizzly bear tour boat arrived.  They picked up three kayaks they keep stashed onshore and headed out in search of grizzlies.  They didn’t go far, just to the beginning of the sedge field near the anchorage.  When I looked through the binoculars, I saw why.  A grizzly was enjoying his breakfast of sedge.  It’s amazing how much sedge a bear can eat, especially when there aren’t any salmon around, and the salmon just didn’t show up this year.  So, it’s sedge for breakfast, lunch and dinner, unless they can catch a slow seal or kayaker.

I hurried as fast as I could to finish suiting up, hoping to get a shot of the bear before he moved deeper into the sedge.  By the time I got to the grizzly, he had moved closer to the south shore of the sedge, where the water was pretty shallow.  

I had just decided I’d better move out to deeper water, when the grizzly suddenly charged toward me.  My heart was pounding a mile a minute, as I  back-paddled for all I was worth. 

 Then, just as suddenly as the bear had charged, he stopped and headed back for some more sedge.

Just as the crows harrass the eagles, they also get on the nerves of grizzlies.  So, I’m thinking that was probably the case here.  I just happened to be in the wrong place when the grizzly had had enough of the pesky crows.