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Cruising the North Pacific Passage via the Alaskan coast, the Aleutian Islands, Eastern Russia and Northern Japan. Read more
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    The Cruise Terminal
    11Main Street, Seward1Bushfire smoke from the Sealife Centre Terrace

    Seward, AK

    August 21, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    Shrouded in thick bushfire smoke, Seward is almost hidden from the ship. The fires are 60 miles away in the Kenai Peninsula but the prevailing winds are sending the smoke over the mountains where it is settling in Resurrection Bay.Read more

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    Puffins

    August 21, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    Here in the centre are Horned and Tufted Puffins, 2 of the 3 species of Puffin. A small bird, they dive for their food and are very fast underwater. They live in huge colonies along the edge of cliffs.Read more

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    King Crabs

    August 21, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    The red king crab, also called Kamchatka crab or Alaskan king crab, is a species of king crab native to the far northern Pacific Ocean, including the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, but also introduced to the Barents Sea. It grows to a leg span of 1.8 m,Read more

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    Loading supplies onto Orion

    August 21, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    It's been an all-day job - unloading the trash and restocking the supplies. It began at 6am when we berthed and is just rapping up now around 3:30pm. We've had a prime seat in this as one of the main loading areas is 3 decks below us.Read more

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    Fishing port with the city beyond
    Ship repair1Our shuttle into townWe follow the bear print walking trail back to the ship1

    Kodiak

    August 22, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Kodiak Island and the city of Kodiak are our next port of call. Situated in the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak gets lots of rain and snow but the port is ice-free. It's home to a huge fishing industry. The warehouses along the port road receive the fish, snap freeze then ship it. No canning is now undertaken on the island.Read more

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    Salmon in the refuge lakes and streams
    Kodiak bears stand more than 3 metres tallFood for a bear, year roundGrey Whales are prevalent in this area

    Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Centre

    August 22, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 13 °C

    The Wildlife Refuge Centre demonstrates to visitors the key role that the wildlife refuges of the US and, in particular, Kodiak, have in preserving and maintaining native and migratory species. All of the exhibits are models in realistic setttings.
    We learn that the Kodiak Bear is a brown bear but much larger than their mainland counterparts, the Grizzlies. The bear density near Karluk Lake is estimated to be 220 bears per square mile. Density for Grizzlies on the mainland (Denali NP) is 1 bear/12 sq miles.    Read more

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    Kodiak History Museum

    August 22, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 13 °C

    Formerly known as the Barenov Museum, this building has several claims to fame:-
    1. Oldest building in AK
    2. Only 1 of 4 remaining Russian structures in AK
    3. Oldest Russian building in USA
    4. Earliest log structure in West Coast USA, built in 1808
    Its a really interesting museum depicting the 3 cultures of Kodiak - the Alutiiq, the Russians and the Americans.    Read more

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    The MagazinDining Table where a murder took placeThe Parlour

    A Russian heritage

    August 22, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 13 °C

    The Alutiiq have been in this region for some 7,500 years. Their story is told in the Alutiiq Museum.
    The Russians came in the late 1700's and set up this building in 1808 and set up a Magazin, the Russian word for store.
    The US purchased Russia in 1867 and this building became the home of the manager of the Kodiak Trading Company.
    In 1911, the Erskine family turned the building into their home.
    In 1948, it was a rooming house.
    In 1967, the City of Kodiak purchased. the building and opened the museum.
    During the tsunami, of 1964, the waves reached up to the front porch of this building which is high above the waterfront.    Read more

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    Kodiak

    August 22, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 13 °C

    Found this little interesting painting in the Museum - the four saints of Alaska. St Herman, St Innocent, St Peter the Aleut, St Juvenal.
    St Herman was a monk who came to Kodiak in 1794. He lived on Spruce Island where he had an orphanage and school. His home on MOnk's Lagoon is a place of pilgrimage today.
    St Innocent was the first bishop in Alaska. He translated spiritual texts into the Aleut Language. His encouragement spread literacy among the first peoples.
    St Peter, the Aleut, was a Kodiak sea otter hunter who refused to convert from Orthodoxy to Catholicism in Spanish California. He was killed as a result.
    St Juvenal came to Kodiak with St Herman in 1794. He travelled north among the Church first peoples baptising them. According to oral history he was killed in Yupik territory.    Read more

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    Busiest road in town - Rezanof Drive
    Trash cans painted as cans of salmon, all differentA reality of living here - earthquakes and tsunamisTop of each trash can - map of the islandYour own named parking place for Leland, Cody & RowenaRoad to the boat - stick to left footpath only

    On the streets of Kodiak

    August 22, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    A real frontier town surrounded by steep hills and scree slopes. It's very green because of the high precipitation here. It rains most days. Locals say there has been a drought. Today was the first rain day in 3 weeks.Read more

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    Kodiak Harbour

    August 22, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    The working harbour has a huge assortment of different types of boats - no pleasure craft here, just working boats of varying kinds. A protective breakwater guards the marina with a channel to the ocean.Read more

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    Houses above Tsunami height

    Dutch Harbour, Unalaska

    August 24, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    Simply known as Dutch to the locals, this is a wild windswept, cold and rainy place in the summer with wind, ice and snow in the winter. The volcanic islands of the Aleutians have very steep sides and rise sharply out of the ocean. Situated right on the Ring of Fire, the islands run along the Aleutian Trench, a deep sea formation where the Pacific Plate is sliding under the North American tectonic plate. The surrounding waters are rich in wildlife and are often referred to as the Cradle of Storms.Read more

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    WWII MuseumThe only telephone that would not work, so no warning given.The control tower

    WWII Museum, Dutch Harbour

    August 24, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

    It was here in the Aleutians that the US forces came up against the Japanese in WWII around the time of Pearl Harbour.The Japanese attacked Dutch Harbour and occupied the island of Kiska in 1942. In 1942/3, US forces began to occupy Amchitka. In May 1943, the Battle of Attu saw 12,500 US soldiers land and began a slow and costly campaign to defeat the Japanese. It was a war combining air strikes and ground assaults. Those Japanese that were still alive, all committed suicide. Of particular note is that the US issued leather army boots were no barrier to the intense cold, causing extensive frostbite. Both they and the Japanese eventually opted for Aleutian traditional garb to combat the cold.Read more

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