FRIDAY 29th – ARRIVED AT LIKELY

Good news. We have wi fi. Not much to report today. It was a leisurely driving day spent mostly in the rain but we are optimistic about the morning. This is our camp site at Pyna-tee-ah Lodge, not quite up to our usual standard but quite satisfactory. A great advantage from Trish's perspective is that she doesn't have to prepare any meals. We eat with our hosts and the other two guests in their home.

The significance of rain is that, if it is raining, the sense of smell which bears use to detect food doesn’t work as well as it normally would and they tend to retreat into the forest and be hard to find.

We need fine weather for the bear hunt tomorrow which starts with breakfast at 5am in the morning!