Plan C....

Suitably refreshed by a Starbuck's coffee, we devised a new plan to head up the Babine River, just outside Smithers.  Well when I say just outside, I actually mean up 125km of logging track from the highway.  Having spent much of the morning getting a crack in the windscreen replaced, we finally made it up to a fishery just outside the town of Granisle where we arrived just in time to see a female Black Bear with cub catching a pink Sockeye Salmon for its tea and an Osprey cirling overhead trying to catch his own.

Further up the track towards Fort Babine we did come across several other Black Bears, most of which took one look at our van and ran away, though this chap did stop long enough to get a photo of....