Great Bear Lodge
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Grizzly bear viewing lodge and tours in British Columbia From early May through October, Great Bear Nature Tours offers grizzly bear viewing excursions from Port Hardy to a beautiful river valley on the central coast of British Columbia. Known as the Great Bear Rainforest, this area is one of the best places in the world to observe grizzly (brown) bears and many other forms of wildlife including black bears, wolves and bald eagles.
Great Bear Nature Tours is rated by National Geographic Adventure as one of the Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth. Our ecotourism lodge is the ideal base for photography and wildlife viewing tours, nestled at the mouth of a pristine salmon river. Wilderness-gourmet meals await you upon your return from the two guided viewing sessions per day. With a maximum of ten guests, you are assured of a personalised wilderness adventure in this very special area.
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Great shot Catherine! Thanks!
Happy New Year Everyone, thank you for an outstanding season. We look forward to serving you next year and in the coming years. What has been going on at GBL since the last guests left in October? Well here it is in B&W!
Ah, great memories from when the crew from Explore TV visited in July. We can't wait to see it on Channel 9 on Sunday!
To our friends in Australia please catch this program about our lodge on TV this weekend. Enjoy!
Here is one of our favourite bears from the past couple of seasons, Fex, beautifully painted by our guest Lynda Harris. It captures his pensive moment in the water so well! Thanks for sharing, Lynda.
People think it is all fun and games here with animals but it's not always with animals! The Crushed Rock Ladies! Pothole filling specialists!!
I just checked a trail camera and found this visitor about 100m from the lodge on 22 July!
How exciting - Good News has returned with two new cubs! The cubs-of-the-year (that is, cubs born this year) are those tiny little brown balls of fur emerging from the sedge on the right. It's now a family affair out on the estuary, as we've been watching her 4-year-old cub Fex this week as well.
Short aerial video of Humpback whales feeding via bubble netting near the lodge yesterday! https://youtu.be/igkiK8X4x3E
"It’s a bird on a buffalo! Well, a grizzly bear, actually. And that’s a female Brown-Headed Cowbird, to be exact. This was a first-time observation here at the lodge – a bird sitting on a bear’s back! Though not a common bird seen here, cowbirds can be found in open habitats like meadows, forest edges, and especially fields and pastures where they forage on the ground for seeds and insects stirred up by the hooves of cattle and horses. Formerly known as buffalo birds, they historically followed the migrating bison herds of the Great Plains. What do you think this cowbird was up to?" Text and photo by our very own Taylor Green
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