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Views of Unga Island as we leave Sand Point headed for Kodiak Island
That's part of the Alaskan Peninsula
Castle Cape....note the calm water......trawler conditions for our overnghter!!
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Sort of looks like a Castle......note the dark clouds......rainy and low clouds!!
Castle Cape and leaving the Alaskan Peninsula for a few weeks!!
Views as we approach Kodiak Island
Sunny and still fairly calm conditions!!
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View from our anchorage in Seaflower Cove in Lazy Bay
That's the Ocean Beauty Cannery we will visit the next day
Looking from our anchorage down to Rodman Reach and Tanner head
Deer in the meadow along the anhcorage
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Views of the Ocean Beauty Cannery
One of the boats offloading salmon
They suck up the salmon via that hose
That one looks pretty big!!
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Mystic at anchor in Seaflower Cove
Hmmm.....what's in there?
ODG.....that's a lot of Dungeness crab!!!
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Woody Knebel, the Plant superintendent for the past 25 years, is an artist!!
During Woody's tenure, all sorts of creative artwork popped up in the most unexpected places: bas-relief figures of fish and bear paw prints on walls; metallic and wooden art; paintings and murals.
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Tha's Woody who spent the morning with us giving us a fantastic tour of the Plant and surrounding area
The salmon are being sorted into various types!
Nice fish......maybe Chum or dog Salmon
That might be a Sockeye salmon
Nice size!!
Unloading the salmon
Sorting table
These fish have been through the Iron Chink and are being inspected to have been completely cleaned
Fish coming out of the the iron chink deheaded, gutted and definned!!
Pretty old piece of equipment but revolutionized salmon processing in the 1900's
Salmon getting ready to be processed
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Blast frozen
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Already filleted!!
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Eggs
Guts/eggs coming out the iron chink
Salmon going into the iron chink
Iron Chink at work!!
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Woody created a museum to display many Alitak native artifacts
Old fishing boat
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Old canning machine
Some old Alnitak salmon cans
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Whiskey barrel??
Canning line
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Ovens to cook the salmon
Woody showing us some very large generators
Flamingos.....really??
Views of the surrounding area
Pet cemetery!
Gorgeous day and view of Lazy Bay
Hmmm.....wonder where the effluent is discharged??
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Kathy and Woody
Panoramic view
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More crab being offloaded
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We took a dinghy ride to Rodman Reach to see some ancient Petroglyphs
Bald Eagle along the way!!
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Got pretty shallow
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John off in the high grass/tundra trying to find the deer trail.....talking very loud to the bears:))))
Woody told us we had a 50/50 chance of meeting a Brown (Grizzly) bear...gulp!!!
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John had to cross 3 beaches like this!!
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Another deer...seen nay bear???
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I made it to the Petroglyphs.....Woody estimates maybe 500 years old
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My view as I drank a beer, rested and talked to the mysterious bear!!!
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I'm not sure what this is and have sent the picture to Woody......is that a drawing of a hunter??
The big rock on the right is where the drawings were located. I spent about 30 min viewing and talking loudly to the bears!!
Lots of wild flowers
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Oh hi Mr Deer, good to see you alive again.....seen any bears???
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We did catch a few more Dungeness crab.....yummers.....
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Views leaving Seaflower Cove going up Deadman Bay to Alpine Cove
View of the Kodiak mountains from our anchorage....note the vibrant color green of the grass
Alpine Cove
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John setting the crab trap
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A professional crabber had about 200 pots set in the bays......he did ok..... and so did we.....10 keepers for us!!
John out talking with the crabber.....he had a cabin in the bay and stayed the night!!
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We had 12 Kodiak Brown bear sightings in the Bay....albeit from a distance!!
Our first Kodiak Brown bear
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Leaving Deadman Bay and rounding Alitak Peninsula we went through Geese channel. It got very narrow in spots!!
View of Three Saints Bay as we enter
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Can you believe it.....named John Isalnd
Yep.....a big rock:))))
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The beach/meadow at the end of the anchorage
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Leaving Three Saints Bay in the fog.....some beautiful reflections on the water!!
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Beautiful!!!
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