EARTH WITNESS PHOTOGRAPHY

Katmai National Park

Katmai National Park is a large, remote area on the Alaska Peninsula in the Aleutian chain of mountains. We took two flights to get there, a chartered Ravn Airlines trip to King Salmon and small float plane rides to Brooks Lodge. The park was created in 1918 to protect the Land of Ten Thousand Smokes, where a volcano sent smoke and pumice high into the air in 1912. Katmai is home to 2000 coastal brown bears, some of whom congregate at Brooks Falls to fish for salmon. While we were early for the salmon run, we did see bears at the viewing platform and on the trails.

Check out both the Katmai National Park slides and the bear slides below.

The Bears of Katmai

Once you've viewed the slide show, check out the bear cam at Explore.org

Ravn Charter flight Anchorage to King Salmon
Ravn Charter flight Anchorage to King Salmon
Anchorage and Cook Inlet
Anchorage and Cook Inlet
Glacier scraped potholes and rivers
Glacier scraped potholes and rivers
Katmai Air
Katmai Air
Float plane to Katmai
Float plane to Katmai
Views from the air
Views from the air
Unloading
Unloading
Welcome to camp
Welcome to camp
Naknek Lake
Naknek Lake
The bridge
The bridge
Land of Ten Thousand Smokes
Land of Ten Thousand Smokes
Pumice and the Ukak River
Pumice and the Ukak River
Falls on the Ukak River
Falls on the Ukak River
Labrador Tea
Labrador Tea
Red-breasted Merganser mom and babies
Red-breasted Merganser mom and babies
Guarding
Guarding
Red-breasted Merganser mom with lots of babies
Red-breasted Merganser mom with lots of babies
Moving fast
Moving fast
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Red-breasted Mergansers on Naknek Lake
Red-breasted Mergansers on Naknek Lake
White Crowned Sparrow
White Crowned Sparrow
Red Squirrel
Red Squirrel

Katmai National Park

In front of the Visitors Center
In front of the Visitors Center
South of the bridge
South of the bridge
Crossing the Brooks River near the bridge
Crossing the Brooks River near the bridge
Trail to Brooks Falls
Trail to Brooks Falls
Brooks Falls
Brooks Falls
From the viewing platform
From the viewing platform
Waiting hopefully
Waiting hopefully
Did a fish just go by?
Did a fish just go by?
Time to move
Time to move
Eating grass on the island
Eating grass on the island
Beside the platform
Beside the platform
Ahhh
By Ellen DeGiacinto
Ahhh
By Ellen DeGiacinto
Getting that last shot
By Glenna Adams
Getting that last shot
By Glenna Adams
Why go through the grass when someone has created this nice path?
Why go through the grass when someone has created this nice path?