Brown bear cubs hanging out on the river

These triplets were following along with their mom while she was fishing Moraine Creek in National Park Service Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

The sow would go into the river to catch her meals and the three would dutifully stay ashore and wait for her to return. Normally they were wise and stayed hidden in the grass but a few times we got a good look at them.

They were so darned cute but I never could get all three to look at me at once and they always seemed to be on the wrong side of the light. Nevertheless, it was a lot of fun to be able to see cubs of the year.