Telegraph Cove - Grizzlys, Whales, Eagles......

After leaving Campbell River and heading up to the top of the Island, as far as the paved road takes us, we stopped in Port Hardy for a couple of nights. Then we drove to Telegraph Cove stopping briefly in Port McNeill to look at the 'World's Largest Burl' (Tree Growth) and that's about it.
Telegraph Cove is an extremely tiny community consisting bascially of a boardwalk with old wooden houses and a couple of campgrounds but there we had two of the best days of our trip we reckon.











The first we did another Whale Watching Trip, seeing more Orca's this time they were a lot more playful, sticking their heads up out of the water, rolling around and tail slapping. We could also hear them clearly thanks to an underwater microphone. We also saw a Humpback, these whales are slowing returning to these waters. It was coming up eating lots of fish and then disappearing under resurfacing miles away but one time it surfaced right next to the boat and then swam under it so we could see it's complete outline - amazing.
The next day we were up very early it just about killed us, to go Grizzly Bear watching. We could rave on about this experience for pages and no doubt will bore you silly with our stories but this was fantastic, so in brief, we saw over 20 bears and cubs in the river catching salmon, playing and testing their authority against each other. We also saw them swimming (love their back paws kicking) and catching the salmon in the deeper waters. They also walked right under the viewing platform so we saw them very closely.
For lunch we stopped at a place called Lagoon Cove where there was a Black Bear wandering in the garden, it came up to where we were having lunch, climbed an apple tree and picked apples off with it's paw. Words can not describe this.
To top of the day we also saw numerous Bald Eagles, Seals and more Orcas.
Hopefully our photos will try to put this all into perspective, otherwise we'll gladly show you our videos...