Several years ago, an acquaintance introduced me to the live bear camera at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park, Alaska. This motion-activated camera broadcasts events at the falls, which usually includes multiple bears sunning themselves and fishing for the salmon that are flinging themselves up the falls.  Because the camera moves to catch activity, the camera sometimes points downstream and away from the falls, which then becomes audible but not visible.

Being in nature is known to relax our nervous systems and create a sense of well-being.  When you cannot escape from your home or office but need a moment to escape and relax, check out the bear camera at   https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls.  See if it doesn’t add a bit of relaxation to your day.  I find the sound of the falls and the antics of the bears to be as calming and mesmerizing as watching flames flicker in a campfire.

I encourage you to start with the bears and the waterfall sounds, but know that Explore.org also has many other live-action cameras capturing the activities of animals around the world.