Greetings from Munsey’s Bear Camp. It is already mid-August, and we are halfway through our summer season. We’ve had a great summer with visitors from Israel, California, Washington, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Switzerland.

Our summer has been cooler than usual. While much of the world baked in June and July, our temperatures hovered in the high 40s and low 50s. The wildflowers are two weeks behind schedule, and the berries are just beginning to ripen. The salmon run is also late, but the fish are arriving and heading upstream to spawn.

The bears are congregating at the mouths of the salmon streams and eagerly devouring their favorite meal. In the last few weeks, we saw bears walking the beaches nearly everywhere we went. Recently, a sow with three one-year-old cubs and another with two-year-old cubs have provided our guests with non-stop entertainment. Watching the family groups interact and seeing how the mothers teach their cubs to fish is fun.

We have not seen many whales yet this summer, but I suspect they will move into the bay in the next few weeks. Fishing has been good. Salmon fishing in Brown’s Lagoon was great in late July, and our guests caught some nice halibut.

Also, In late July, we welcomed Mike’s cousin, Jay Munsey, and his wife, Penny, and their family. Mike and Jay had never met, but they teased each other as if they were old friends, and you only had to look at them to know they were related. We had a fun few days with Jay and Penny and their family, and they left us with the warm feeling of knowing we had just expanded our family.

I will write a more in-depth post once our season has ended, but thank you to all our guests so far this summer, and thank you, Adam, for the wonderful care package! To our late August and September guests – we can’t wait to meet and have fun with you in our beautiful little corner of the world.