Alaska’s Grizzly WildCam provides a rich tourist experience

National Geographic Interactive is a great place to visit online. Be prepared, however, to upload recent media files at this site, such as RealMedia, to experience video and sound. The Grizzly WildCam on 22 July 2006, at Alaska’s McNeil River Falls, showed several bears fishing for salmon. This sanctuary has the world’s highest concentration of grizzlies. The website has been put together through the partnerhip of the US National Park Service and the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska, to provide “what many visitors consider one of the richest experiences of their lives”.

The Grizzly site has a narrated video gallery, a great grizzly photo gallery, notes about bears, a grizzly blog, links to other resources, bibliography and related links, and technical notes on the WebCam.

The live video signal is recorded from a camera embedded in a fake boulder on the river bank. The signal is transmitted via wireless microwave technology and relayed over about 165 km to the Pratt Museum where the cameras are controlled. The video feed is then relayed to servers at RealNetwork in Seattle, WA, then posted to the internet at National Geographic.

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