Hello everyone, I thought those of you planning a trip to Katmai might be interested in a website I came across...it is a journal of a person working at Katmai for the summer. It has great updated info. Here is the url http://happiness2004.tblog.com/

I will be leaving for Katmai next week and I will be sure to post a trip report when I return. Hope everyone gets some use out of the blog..I know I have.

We have been to Homer and Katmai. The time to go to Katmai is the last few days of June thru end of July. They are there for the Salmon. Then they move out. They are back again in Sept after the Salmon have died.
The cost of Katmai is expensive, so make sure you will be there at a good bear viewing.
Homer was good. We went out on a boat and saw lots of bears fishing.
Both locations required entry via a float plane.
We have been to Alaska several times - planning to visit again next year.

As someone who goes every year bear watching to Katmai National Park, not to Brooks Falls, I would like to say that each time we saw many bears. We were there mid-July (once), end of July (three times), begining of August (twice), mid-August (once). As I mentioned before each time we saw between 40-75 bears. The highest number we had it was August 4th.
JackieSun, when you wrote
<The time to go to Katmai is the last few days of June thru end of July. They are there for the Salmon. Then they move out>
Did you mean Brooks Falls in Katmai NP?
Then <Homer was good. We went out on a boat and saw lots of bears fishing.> But that had to be again Katmai National Park, right? If there are any other ways to go bear watching from Homer I hope to find out.

thank you again for all the input. the advice i received to make this decision could not have been done without all of the experience of others. thanks and as another traveler said, God Bless Mr. Seward. He had vision.

just now saw the requests for a website address -- bear photos can be found at either:

www.photographersdirect.com/wildlifereflections
or
www.wildlife-reflections.com

Thought I'd add a comment on bears. Spent a week last July near Hallo Bay watching bears everday. Accommodations are comfortable in large tents with great meals prepared. No crowds and lots of bears fishing, clamming, grazing in the meadows. We hung out with them for hours.

Also saw two red fox very close up. One was just coming to investigate us and the other was hunting and caught and ate a vole. So close we could have shared! Had two wolf sightings also. One permitted a decent photo.


Bless Mr. Seward is right!