Kodiak, Alaska

Wow! We are way up here in Alaska!!
Kodiak is a fishing village that welcomes cruise ships in spring and fall when the ships that are either starting or ending their southern Alaska runs are repositioning their ships to Asia.
We left the ship on a tender at 8:00am when it was just barely light. Temperature 49°.
6000 people live in Kodiak proper. As I mentioned, fishing is the main source of work and income here. They fish for salmon, cod, halibut and Dungeness crab. Our guide has been fishing here for almost 50 years and had some very interesting stories about his own experiences as well as those of fishermen he knows. It’s an extremely dangerous occupation in these waters as the weather and the seas are quite unforgiving at times. One story he told was that the seas became quite rough on a crabbing boat. The crab traps are large and as the waves kept splashing onto the traps that were sitting on the boat, they froze and the traps became heavy and rolled the boat upside down.
There is a monument downtown with all the names of the fishermen and fisherwoman from the town that have perished while fishing.
In any case, it was a beautiful day and we enjoyed strolling through town on our last day on land ahead of 6 days at sea while traveling toward Japan.Read more