I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Groundler episode 754. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

waterfalls and whales, bubble nets and bears, purposes, and a spirit bear as we go to the great bear. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

The Great Bear Rainforest. I'd like to welcome back to the show Susan Portnoy from the insatiable traveler.com

who's come to talk to us about the Great Bear Rainforest.

Susan, welcome back to the show.

Thank you, Chris. I always love speaking with you about all these fabulous adventures.

Usually we're talking to Susan about going on safari and shooting,

well shooting with a camera,

wildlife, as Susan is a photographer.

Yeah, thank you for that.

Yeah, I tell you, we need to be very clear here

what I'm saying.

In fact, I need to brag about my friend Susan here that since she has been the show last she has won the

photographer of the year for the society the society of American travel writer Susan

congratulations for that.

Thank you so much. It's very kind of you to mention it.

And we're not talking this time about Namibia or South Africa or wherever we talked about and but we're still going to be taking pictures of wildlife, but you're in Canada this time.

Where is the Great Bear Brain Forest?

It's in northwest Canada about an hour north of Vancouver and it's a protected land called the Great Bear

Rainforest. It's about the size of Ireland and it is absolutely exquisite.

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