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Clarks Bay September

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Clarks Bay Beach with Brown Bear Tracks in September
A few hundred yards up the beach from where this photograph was composed, Clarks River debouches into Chignik Lake. Small enough to cross when wearing waders but large enough to navigate in a skiff equipped with a jet drive, Clarks provides major spawning habitat for Sockeye and Coho salmon. Lots of salmon. Lots of bears. September 13, 2018

Tundra Swans at Black Lake

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Wintertime photograph of snow covered mountains
Tundra Swans at Black Lake – The jagged Aleutian Mountains loom in the background over this bay on remote Black Lake on the Alaska Peninsula. A flock of approximately six dozen Tundra Swans rests on ice in the foreground. Not readily discernible in this photo, a few ducks, mostly Mallards, are milling about in the open water near the ice. This broad, shallow, weedy lake at the headwaters of the Chignik River Drainage provides waterfowl habitat as well as an important nursery for salmon that spawn in various tributaries. The most practical way to access the remote waters of Black Lake is by skiff – about 17 winding miles from the village of Chignik Lake up Chignik Lake and then up Black River. January 3, 2018