Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Descending Salmon Eggs

    Oct 20, 2017 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a brown bear’s catch of the day. Photographer Elizabeth Leonard was bear-watching at Brooks Falls when this grizzly caught a salmon jumping upstream. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Feeding the Kids

    Dec 2, 2016 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a scene from Brooks Falls. Photographer Bill Galloway took hundreds of photos of the brown bears of Katmai while visiting Alaska. Here, a mother bear catches salmon for her three cubs.

  • Videos

    Five Live Critter Cams for Summer Viewing

    Jul 12, 2016 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    We just passed the unofficial middle of summer, July 4. With that marker comes a usual complaint: there’s nothing to watch on TV. But now that most regular programs are on hiatus, I’ve found something far more fascinating: spying on the real-time lives of wild animals.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Grizzly Staring Contest

    Sep 11, 2015 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a grizzly bear coming face-to-face with his potential dinner in Brooks Falls. Photographer Jeff Goldberg captured this photo while visiting Alaska with Nat Hab.

  • News & More

    Nature Travel: The Health Benefits of Awe and Anticipation

    May 7, 2015 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The first time you see a lion on the great plains of Africa, it fills you with wonder. While watching a grizzly bear catch salmon at Brooks Falls in Alaska, you can’t help but feel admiration for its superior fishing skills.

  • Travel Tales

    Grizzly Bear Travels: A Photo Essay

    Sep 11, 2014 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Being close enough to view a grizzly bear in the wild inspires feelings of awe and nostalgia: wonder at their size and power, and a longing for an America that once was—when the land was wild and pristine, and we newcomers were still adventurers exploring something big and far beyond anything else we had…

  • Videos

    Crittercam: Grizzly Bear Catches a Salmon

    Jul 5, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Photos of grizzly bears catching salmon over Brooks Falls in Alaska (such as the one above, which I captured on a trip to Alaska in 2006) have become iconic images for the state and for the still-wild areas of America in general.