| Within a short walking distance from Bear Creek
RV Park, is a place where salmon are trying to get upstream. First they
have to get through a big pipe that takes them under the road, but there
are so many salmon, they cannot all fit through the pipe. |
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Some salmon get in too
shallow and get stuck. If they don't get loose, they just die there. |
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| Before the salmon reach the pipe to get to
the other side of the road, they swim upstream - in the photos below, each
splash you see in the photo is salmon fighting their way to the pipe. The
water is crystal clear with a rocky bottom. |
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| Once the salmon get through the pipe, they
must jump up through this waterfall. There they are "captured"
by the salmon workers, who count them, and release them into the main stream. |
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| When the salmon jump, they must get into the
bigger waterfall area, or they hit a gate, and fall back into the water
to try again. |
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The salmon are about to
be counted and released |
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