The guide was amazing and such knowledge. She was a local and an expert on the plants and the animals. She taught us allot about how the plants were used as medicine by the local natives and how they cured many sicknesses.
She was patient with everyone and we had a very diverse group with a few extremely old and handicapped members.
The bears were fun and something that we really wanted to see... I understand that we do not want to see them in the wild because they are huge and can be very dangerous, so this fortress was so much like their natural habitat that it created a great viewing of their interactions.
Even though our bus was running late, we realised why when our guide and driver Vivienne had so much local knowledge, particularly about her tribe the Tlingits, that she could not fit it all in in the time. We benefitted because we were the last tour of the day and we over ran by a lot more because she did not have another group to pick up. My only small niggle was that we did not have long enough at the Fortress of the Bear. It was very interesting because the people who set the place up were giving a very detailed narration but we had to leave part way through.
The bus driver was highly knowledgeable and friendly. The bear exhibit was nicely done and I felt the bears were happy in there homes.