I spent two nights at the Brooks Camp Campground on 16 & 17 September 2007. These were the most thrilling two days of my life and the highlight of a three week trip to Alaska. Brooks camp and the world famous Brooks falls are situated at the mouth of the Brooks River, along the shore of Naknek Lake and within the vast Katmai National Park. Katmai contains the world's largest protected brown bear population, estimated to number in excess of 3,000. Bears congregate at the Brooks Falls viewing platform in June and September, when the salmon are spawning. Rangers at the park are extremely careful not to allow bears to obtain human food or get into confrontations with humans. As a result, bears in Katmai National Park are uniquely unafraid of, and uninterested in humans, and will allow people to approach (and photograph) much more closely than bears elsewhere.