The Final Days!

Here we are!  The final days of the season for the jet boat tours, and there doesn’t seem to be much time to spare with autumn closing in weeks earlier than normal.

The first sign of fall showed its colors in the big cottonwood tree overlooking the dock area just after the middle of August. Its yellow and brown leaves are now steadily falling and blanketing the ground around the fire that Duck has kept burning all summer.

The air has a new crispness to it and the temperatures are slowly making their way back down the thermometer.  With the cooler weather the snow and glacier melt has all but stopped, leaving the river no choice but to drop back down to a mere trickle compared to its high water levels just a month ago.

Sunrise over PC Dock
by Angie

The late run of Silver and Chum salmon will soon fill the rivers, and the eagles will be gathering by the hundreds for their yearly feast in the Eagle Preserve. 

 

The moose will soon begin their rut.  Cows will be heard for miles as they call out in search of a bull to mate with.  Bulls with their massive antlers will be heard grunting, trying to find cows and fighting off any other bulls that invade on their territory and its cows.

Young bear looking for salmon.
by Angie

 

Brown bears will be scurrying along the river banks eating as much fish as they can, preparing for the long winter hibernation that is just a few weeks away.

 

AND… Duck and Karen will soon be migrating to a warmer climate while the fall begins its many faces of change. Heavy rains and winds, cool mornings, hopefully sunshine, and eventually SNOW!!!!!!!!

Duck & Karen

Thank you!