Day 1. All participants are meet on Kodiak Island where the tour is started. The first night is spent at a hotel at Kodiak Island.
Day 2-8. Today our sea plane will fly us out to Hallo Bay. The small sea planes are quite weather dependent for flying, the weather can sometimes be too tough to fly and one then have to be prepared to wait a day or two before we can fly out. Once up in the air, the flight takes about 1 hour. During clear weather you will get a fantastic view over a fantastic wilderness landscape with towering mountains, glaciers and grassy plains. When we arrive in Hallo Bay, we pitch our tent camp a few kilometers away from the salmon rivers where bears are usually active. During the days that follows, we will be able to photograph / view bears at a uniquely close range as they catch salmon in the rivers. Salmon migrate into the rivers to spawn and the rivers can sometimes almost boil with salmon. In addition to salmon fishing bears, one might also get opportunities to photograph bears looking for clams on the beaches, bears moving on the large grassy plains, bear cubs playing, and more much. By staying in the same area for several days, we have the opportunity to photograph and witness many different behaviors. After a few days you also learn to recognize certain individuals, which usually makes the whole viewing even more interesting. Besides bears, you also have a great chance to see and sometimes even photograph wolves. You can often hear them howl in the early mornings and also see tracks of them along the beach. The bird life in the area is rich; powerful bald eagles along the rivers, hunting and pergrine falcons can sometimes also be seen hunting birds across the plains. Out in the sea you can often see sea otters lying on their backs and knocking sea urchins with stones on their stomachs, the heads of seals poping up from time to time, sometimes you can even get to see whales in the distance out in the ocean. The days that follow we will continue to view and photograph bears in Hallo Bay. During our stay we will discover most of the Hallo Bay area.
Day 8. Our seaplane picks us up sometime during the day to take us back to Kodiak Island. Again, the pickup is weather dependent, if the weather is bad we may have to wait a day or alternatively be picked up a day earlier. We will spend a night one at a hotel on Kodiak Island at our return.

Buffer days: We recommend having one or two days as a buffer before continuing flights from Kodiak and international flight home to insure against delays due to bad weather.