kodiak home of the worlds largest land carnivore

so we got to kodiak and it was very foggy and rainy, boo, i mean c'mon we'r on our summer holidays!! so it all seemed very miserable and full of hard working fisher folk! we got a taxi to bev's bed and make your own darn breakfast, which i have to say was an amazing place, we paid $70 a night and got an entire house all to ourselves with a kitchen and livingroom with cable tv, and a fully stocked breakfast fridge, yum

me in the kitchen


debbie in the kitchen


all the rooms were named after animals and we were in the fish room, this bag was on the wall, we realy wanted to take it on a night out, lol




debbie hanging out in the livingroom, the laptops are out in the hope that the internet fairies turned up


with it being sooo rainy we had to do things that involved being inside, like visiting museums, this kodiak bear is in the native museum, it was killed in 1982 and features in the film "the grizzly man" it was HUGE!!!


some rather interesting sunglasses


they were in this museum, which is housed in the oldest building in kodiak


the best thing we did to get out of the rain was to go to the kodiak island brewing co and try all there beers (they let u do it for free!!) debbies fake id is still working a treat :) we then bought 2 growlers (big bottles of beer) of 2 diferent beers and headed home to get drunk, eh i mean have a quiet drink, they were good, so good infact that we went back the next day and got the growlers filled up of another 2 types of beer




with no internet we turned our attentions to more creative pastimes and made debbie a new necklace with some beads i had and some she bought that day, i also got some new beads for the dreads






i bought a whale tail charm in homer, id wanted one for ages and thought if im going to get one anywhere it has to be alaska. goes quite well with the ole jesus fish i thought


some general pics from kodiak, it was so rainy and foggy we didnt realise that it was actualy surrounded by snow capped mountains!!




the holy resurrection church


st hermans orthodox seminary, can you spot the monk by the tree on the left, i think he was running away from my camera!


we went on a bit of a walk over the bridge, the guide book said we'd see sea lions over there, but no luck we didnt spot any! jst more bald eagles which are starting to get a bit boring! lol


one of the many eagles


the harbour at the other side of the bridge


at the harbour there was 3 phone boxes, none of which actualy had any phones in them!


we went on a bit of a walk in the woods as i said it was pretty rainy




this is the beach where we seen the bear paw sticking out of a cave, debbie ran away in fear while i got the binoliars our and tried to detemine if it was indeed a bear paw, then got scared and ran away


some signs from around kodiak, basicaly telling u to not encourage bears and head for high ground when a sunami hits, oh and wear your seatbelt, there very adamant on that in alaska




the fog and rain finaly cleared and we seen the surrounding mountains and seen that kodiak was actualy realy pretty, so we hired a car and headed out of town in persuit of some bears

the car, i felt a little inadequate with this tiny car next to everyone elses big pick up trucks but i was so glad it was small and drivable




some pics from our road trip, which lasted about 36miles south of kodiak before running out of road




after a while the road went from proper road to gravel road, this was the gravel road


one of the beaches on our trip




debbie found some walrus teeth (i think they might have been some shells worn by the sea but dont tell her, shhhh)


me geting to near the sea!!


me behind the wheel, very serious business


some general pics








there are loads of bunkers all over kodiak from before WW2, the bunkers in the background


debbie still checking for whales


after checking out all the south had to offer we headed north for a walk through the woods to a lovely little beach, still no sign of any bears. there were a lot of furry branched trees around though


the beach






there was also a lake




another bunker from the war days




the best thing we found in the woods was this tiny little squirrel, it didnt even flintch when we got close up in its grill, well apart from when debbie put the macro setting on the camera and practicaly touched it she was that close, then it looked disgusted and took of


getting closer


ok to close, get outa my grill


so that was kodiak, we'r now in whittier staying in a place the guide book describes as "the multi purpose venue is pretty squalid but, as a last resort it'l do" dont know what there talking about, its pretty nice and has tv!! although from the outside it looks pretty bad, we'l update with pics tomoro, im all blogged out