.. Your pilot and guides
would like the opportunity to share their knowledge, enthusiasm and
love for Alaska and its' wild inhabitants. Fly in our floatplane, the ultimate mode of Alaskan Bush travel,
across the Cook Inlet to the Alaska Peninsula, home of the largest concentration
of Brown Bears in Alaska. Much more than a photography trip. We
are an educational experience dispelling the many sensationalized myths
that surround bears. We will teach you how to move safety, respectfully
and responsibly through bear country. They present the Brown Bear as
an integral part of a much bigger picture-his threatened and, diminishing
domain. We are a personalized experience - questions are encouraged. The
small group size and client/guide ratio assures you answers to all of
your questions about the bears- what they eat, when and where they hibernate,
how they communicate ... as well as the birds and other animals that
live beside them and the flowers and vegetation that cover the tundra
you walk across. While bears are always the focal point, each trip varies
slightly as it takes on the personality and interests of the present
group. Although the trips require a moderate level of physical activity
they are appropriate for almost everyone, we encourage children.
...As you step off the plane
back in Homer you will take with you not only a real sense of having
been in "Bear Country" but the confidence to move through that country
that comes only from personal experience, education and understanding-myths
and exaggerations dispelled-replaced by fact and solid knowledge.
...It is our sincere hope that every person comes away from the
trip an ambassador for the Bear and the fragile, wild land he lives
in.
It could not be said more eloquently
than in John McPhees Coming Into The Country:
"The sight of the grizzly
bear stirred me like nothing else the country could contain. What mattered
was not so much the bear himself as what the bear implied. He was the
predominant thing in that country and for him to be in it at all meant
that there had to be more of the same kind of country all around that.
He implied a world. He was an affirmation to the rest of the earth that
his kind of place was extant".
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