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Kodiak has less than 100 miles of road.
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day 3 Kodiak

Our host Roland took us out on his boat the Celtic Mist to go fishing. It was a beautiful sunny day temp 53. I tried my had at fishing but sea sickness ended that, but Roland let me pilot the boat to elephant rock. A first for me. We saw stellar sea lions, seals, puffins, etc. Gene's first fish was the ugliest thing called a Skulpin. It is also called by the name of Irish lord and mother in law fish.
Gene caught about a 30 pound halibut and several cod. Since I was ill Dixie took the pic of Gene holding the catch of the day and I need to get it from her. After cleaning and gutting the fish we caught it weighed out at about 50 lbs. Bonnie, Roland's wife made a rhubarb pie. First time I every had it. We were also given a taste of uncooked rhubarb, it is tart. It tasted better with sugar.

day 2 pics

Day 2

The weather has been cloudy and COOL. You will notice there are not to many pics without our coats or sweat shirts on.
Dixie coined the word..pick-a-road. Every day we would pick a road that we did not have any idea where it went to. We had quite an adventure this day as we picked a road that lead to logging roads. As we went around the roads we came to dead ends. We were actually thinking that they would have to send someone to rescue us as we kept ending up at the same place and dead end roads. We eventually found the right road but it was scarry for a while. Tensions mounted and the GIRLS became silent.We knew we would not starve. We had packed two coolers with food in Homer. I had stopped at a store in Anchorage and bought a cooked meatloaf that I froze. After we got out of the logging roads we stopped for lunch on the beach and had sandwiches.
Not to shabby.
We spotted Sitka deer, eagles and the sitka spruce forests.

Because of the islands high humity the forest we found were ladened with moss. It gave off a beautiful and errie feeling.
We have also seen a multitude of bird species, but the eagle is our favorite.
The wild flowers are outstanding.

June 28

Kodiak June 28

Sunny day for a cruise. We left on the Kennicut about 9:30am. Really nice roomy boat. Jim & Dixie commented that the ferry was as nice as some cruise ships they had been on. We saw whales, sea lions, puffins and played domino's and skip-bo. The food on the ferry was reasonable and good. Burger & fries where 7.95.
We got to our B&B around 9 and met our hosts Bonnie & Roland Baker. Very nice log cabin house. Roland was originally from the British Isles and Bonnie from Montana. They moved to Kodiak 2 years ago because they love the small town atmosphere and I think Roland liked the fact that it is called the Alaskan emerald isle. The B&B is called the Celtic Mist.
The Alutiq people have inhabited the Kodiak Island Archipelago for more than 7500 yrs. In 1784 a new era of Russian activity was born. The Russians fought the Alutiq inhabitants and a brutal conflict ensued, but the Russians superior firepower eventually broke the resistance. The economy was fur trading.
The territory was purchased in 1867 the economy shifted to whaling, crabbing and salmon fishing.
During WWII Kodiak became a major staging area for North Pacific operations. The population soared to more than 25,000. A submarine base and air station were constructed at Women's Bay and an army outpost was established near the Buskin River. We walked around the bunkers and gun emplacements and Fort Ambercrombie.