Misty Fiords National Monument



Punchbowl Cove



Punchbowl Cove



Awoke to a nice sunny day and continued our trip up Behm Canal with a stop at Rudyerd Bay and Punchbowl Cove, part of the Misty Fiords region.  The towering rock faces are cut with glacier-fed streams and waterfalls, an awe inspiring inlet of twists and turns with magnificent scoured granite peaks.  While motoring in Punchbowl Cove, we spotted a mother Grizzly bear and her two cubs foraging along a grassy shore and we stopped to observe them from our boat.  The grizzly, larger than the black bear, is identified by a large hump above the shoulders.  We continued watching the bears for several minutes before heading back out to the main channel and onward to our night’s anchorage in Manzanita Bay.



Rudyerd Bay



Grizzly Mother Bear and Cubs