"Bearly" There

We only left home for Alaska as of last Friday and already we have seen so much.  Yesterday we went 10 hours on the boat cruising from Comox, Vancouver Island to the Broughton Archipelago and to our most favorite tiny gunkhole.  Shortly after getting anchored, I said to BJ, "Is that a dog on the shore?"...then we realized, no, it was a bear..a large brown bear.  Now this is the closest I have ever come to seeing a bear, other than the zoo.  Our boat was about 20 yards from shore so it was really up close and personal.  He did not seen to be bothered by our presence, just a glance our way occasionally as he sauntered along the shore line looking for goodies hidden between the rocks.  It was quite the excitement for the day.  I don't know how often I will be able to blog as we will be anchored much of the time.  We have had good weather thus far but the true test will be heading out into the open ocean tomorrow if the forecast is good.   I'm not looking forward to that but everyone has to do it if they want to go to Alaska.  'Course, there's that debatable word "want" again...:-)  Today we saw a huge cruise ship suddenly come around a corner as we were exiting a channel and we had to wait until it went by and I thought, oh how nice if they could just tow us.