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Old May 24, 2012, 8:09 pm
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Homer15
 
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Originally Posted by piper28
One other thing to consider, if you want to do bear viewing out of some of the ports, apparently early in the season isn't as good a choice. For example, in Ketchikan, most of the bear viewing floatplane trips don't start operating until mid July or so, because they bears aren't in the right locations until then.
I think that's because that's when the salmon run, which would be a sight in and of itself.
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