Summer is Almost here!
With the long winter nearly behind us, we are hard at work at the lodge readying for our guests arrival. Pipes are being thawed, snow is being shoveled and the our fantastic staff are preparing for flights from all over the country.
As the day of our first clients approach, the time is also here to fire up the Great Alaska Adventure Blog! If you know of anyone who would like to receive these posts, please feel free to pass them on. I'll be focusing on a number of items in the future posts: fishing reports from our local rivers, oceans and bay, Wildlife sightings and other Nature-based occurrences that our guests may be interested in. Of course we'll post "photos from field" from our guests and guides, so if you are coming to Alaska, it's a great way to anticipate your big trip and share where you are going with your friends!
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This week At Bearcamp" will, as always, be a big feature of the blog, and I'll pass on our resident "bear whisperer" Caprice's thoughts and images from Chinitna Bay. Our guests will be flying to to the camp daily to view the bears from our raised platform, as well as learning about the bears behavior and seeing Caprice's favorite, the spring cubs learn from mama all about life in the wild. If you enjoy wilderness, wild bears and the wild life, then BearCamp is for you!
Fishing Reports will be another big topic in the weekly posts- photos from our guests best catches (and stories about the ones that got away!). Our guides will be targeting giant Trophy Rainbow Trout and Dolly Varden with fly and spinning rods on the amazing Kenai river, jigging for Offshore Halibut and bottom fish in Cook Inlet and Resurrection Bay and trolling for Kings along the coastal beaches. They'll put their clients 10 separate runs of 4
separate salmon species (King, Sockeye, Silver and Pink) on as many as 5 different river sheds near the lodge. We'll also be reviewing any regulation changes, water conditions and weather reports or other items that affect our daily fishing success. Be sure to "follow" the blog to keep up to date on all the fishing reports for this summer!
2013 Alaska Photo Contest. We'll once again be running our Great Alaska Guest Photo contest- and as the summer goes along we'll be posting some of the great images that our guests send us, as well. We have a current winner for last year, and will be reporting on that and sharing the photo in the next post. If you'll be traveling with us this summer, be sure to keep some extra batteries with you, and an extra memory card or two...you want to be ready for "The Moment"! That may be the Brown Bear with triplets at BearCamp, the 12 pound rainbow trout or 60 pound King salmon that you gently released, or the Bald Eagle that flew a few yards from your drift boat or the humpback whale that breaches just yards from your group on your Kenai Fjords cruise...whatever "the moment" is for you, be ready for it. As the saying goes in outdoor and nature photography circles, "F8 and be there" is the motto for an amazing shot.
We'll also be reporting on events at
Jungle Tarpon Lodge and
Holbox Fly Fishing Lodge- our two warm weather destinations. The blog will feature fishing reports, client stories, great images of trophy Tarpon and incredible wildlife and much more. Summer is a great time at both destinations, so if giant Tarpon and amazing wildlife is up your alley, then be sure to check them out.
Jump for Joy! As a new item on the blog for 2013, we'll be issuing
Last minute specials, only available to those who are followers of the Great Alaska Adventure Blog. Guided Halibut or Salmon fishing charter add-ons, reduced rates for BearCamp add-ons or float plane return to Anchorage for the price of Commuter air...we'll even offer full packages at great deals in specific time frames. If you'd got some flexibility and want to schedule a trip to Great Alaska this year, don't miss out.
Remember, these specials are only available to those who follow the Great Alaska Adventure Blog!
That's it for now- Thanks so much for being here, and I look forward to sharing the summer's events with you!
