The sun finally shined this last week after a cool, cloudy spring, and the sunny weather turned my thoughts toward our summer trips. June is our “work month” here at Munsey’s Bear Camp. We build, paint, fix, garden and clean in June, and when the sun shines, we grab paint brushes and work as fast as we can because the sunshine usually doesn’t last long. June is one of the rainiest months on the island, so we don’t squander sunshine.

While we haven’t had much time to get out and play, we are enjoying spring. In mid-May, the landscape is pale brown and grey, but by late May, green sprouts push through the dead leaves and fallen twigs, and two weeks later, this island becomes a jungle with three-foot-high cow parsnip, large ferns unfurling in the woods, and wildflowers sprouting on every available open patch of earth. Overnight, the alders, willows, birch, and cottonwoods burst to life with budding leaves, and the wild grass in our yard grows several inches.

As soon as the grass begins showing tints of green, deer appear in our yard to graze. Two young bucks, born a year ago, have been our most frequent visitors, and their heads now sport small antlers covered by velvet. Their mother brought them into our yard a year ago soon after they were born, and we have watched them grow. They are accustomed to us and are curious, often walking to within a few feet of us. Mom accompanied the young bucks into our yard up until two weeks ago when they began showing up on their own. We thought we understood her sudden absence, and we wondered if her offspring knew why she had abandoned them. She confirmed our suspicions two days ago when she arrived with a tiny fawn.

Speaking of babies, we have already seen several sows with cubs, and we are expecting another excellent summer of watching family groups when we bear view. We have also seen a few fin whales in the bay, and we even watched orcas twice this spring.

As we continue to prepare for our summer season, Mike and I will sit down in a few days to review our list of guests for the summer. We’ll make notes about special dietary needs and try to pin down the interests of each group. When Mary, our wonderful cook, arrives, we will hand her the list of food requirements, and she will post them on her calendar. We will then sit down with Mary and Abby, our camp helper and Mary’s sister, and review our guest list again. Half of our guests are returnees, so we know their needs and what they will want to do, and for the rest, we will plan based on what they have told us.
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We only take six guests at a time, and our goal is to provide each of those guests with the best adventure possible. We want you to tell us Munsey’s Bear Camp was the highlight of your vacation, and years from now when you look at your photos, we hope you will smile and laugh at the great memories and the good time you had here. Many of our guests e-mail to thank us and let us know they have arrived home safely from their Alaska trip. A few times each summer, a guest will confide in her e-mail that Munsey’s Bear Camp was by far the best part of her Alaska vacation. When Mike receives such an e-mail, he tells Mary and me, and we cheer. We’re not aiming for “good,” we want to be “the best.”

I know many of our 2018 summer guests will read this post, and to them, I want to say, “Are you ready for your adventure? I can’t wait to meet you and see what will happen as the summer unfolds!” I will post mid-summer again to summarize our adventures up to that point.

I write a weekly blog at http://robinbarefield.com/blog about Kodiak wildlife, living in the wilderness, and my writing. I have written three Alaska wilderness mystery novels and am working on a book about the wildlife of Kodiak Island. I post on my blog once a week and release my posts on Sunday afternoons (U.S. time zones), so if you want to learn more about the island you are planning to visit or would like to visit, I invite you to take a look at my blog, and please leave a comment to say hi.