High tide is at 0837 hrs, but I wanted to get an early start to maximize the amount of time I could spend at Barnard Creek, before the water started receding. As I was leaving the boat, I spotted this pair of Loons.

As I got closer to the creek, I spotted this perturbed immature eagle.

I shot a video of the salmon jumping, since it’s almost impossible to get a still shot of them jumping. I’ll post the video on YouTube when I get home.

This wasn’t a very high tide, actually a neap tide, so the water wasn’t much higher than yesterday. I did manage to get passed the berm, however. But, as you can see, I didn’t have much water under me.

I was thinking that grizzly would have no problem just wading out into the water to get me.  Then, I caught something moving out of the corner of my eye. I was getting ready to make a quick exit, when I realized it was bright yellow. I’ve never seen any bright yellow bears.  What I was seeing wasn’t a grizzly, but paparazzi!

This guy was hailing his friends who were paddling a canoe.

They proceeded to set up a tripod, with the camera aimed into the trees.

I have no idea what they were trying to shoot, but there wasn’t much chance of any bears showing up with all this hubbub. So, I turned around and called Al to tell him I was on my way back. He said he’d have breakfast ready for me when I got there. Nice.