Day 54, Aug 25

We woke up to clear skies and a brilliant sunrise. A quick bite to eat and we were on the road. 
As we were approaching Dease Lake, around 100 km down the road, a moose cow and calf stepped out of the brush onto the road in front of us. I don’t know who was more frightened, them or us. The cow quickly ran off into the brush on the other side, but the calf ran up the road in front of us. I wanted to see more moose, but that was a little too close for comfort. 
Shortly after, we came upon a sign warning of an accident scene. There was a truck in our lane stopped just before a curve in the road. It had extensive damage to the driver front and we assumed it was a moose encounter. Tonight as we were fueling up, a tilt and load with the truck onboard came into the station. I asked him if the truck had met up with a moose and it had, three days prior. The tilt and load came all the way from Grand Prairie, over 1500 km away. That will be one expensive tow!
Just west of the Junction of the Cassiar and the Stewart/Hyder Highway, we entered a turn out where we wanted to leave the bus while we went to Stewart. There was a wide and deep pothole at the entrance that was unavoidable. The bus took a bit of a crunch on the passenger side front corner. The bus bra took the brunt of the scrape. 
It is about a 45 minute drive into Stewart, the Canadian town. The Fish Creek Wildlife viewing platform is in Hyder Alaska adjacent to Stewart. I was able to get cell service in Stewart in order to do the ArriveCan app for our return into Canada but was unable to purchase our passes for the wildlife viewing.  The passes are new this year and the website is difficult. A store in Hyder, Boundary Gifts, had taken on assisting tourists who had difficulties with the website so we were able to purchase our passes there. 
There were no bears at the viewing area when we arrived around 2. A lady from Georgia chatted us up for quite a while. We decided we would hang around until 3 and then leave. 
Then a male grizzly was spotted in the lagoon. He spent quite a while swimming and catching fish there until he came right up the bank in front of us and passed under the platform. Once in the river, he chased salmon back and forth as he ran up and down the river. Ever once in a while he would catch a fish but mostly dropped them right away. Eventually he found one to his liking and devoured it. 
At 3:30, we decided to return to the bus. Of course, once we got through Canada Customs our phones changed back to Pacific time and it was actually 4:30. 
That put us behind on our travels and it was dark by the time we pulled into our campground in Terrace. The evening was mild and we were happy to sit outside and have a drink.