I've never been that much of a animal watcher my entire life, but on a lark I was able to visit Katmai National Park in Alaska this past year where these bears

I've never been that much of a animal watcher my entire life, but on a lark I was able to visit Katmai National Park in Alaska this past year where these bears are from. I'm now a bear fan. Highly, HIGHLY recommend checking out if you have spare bandwidth for it. It's pretty amazing to see tens of bears at any given time along Brooks Falls and by the lower river and have them kinda roam around the nature preserve, while us humans are boxed into little observation platforms, Jurrasic-Park-style. And when you're not in the fenced areas and are along a trail, bears wander around and calmly claim right-of-way to all your paths as you basically socially-distance yourselves from them at all times. (Visitors here get "the bear talk" when arriving, get best practices on being super boring to bears, and in return bears here are conditioned to ignore humans pretty much and go about their days eating large quantities of fish and berries.) Katmai: https://www.nps.gov/katm/index.htm https://www.nps.gov/katm/index.htm Bearcam: https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm