North Pacific Passage

Cruising the North Pacific Passage via the Alaskan coast, the Aleutian Islands, Eastern Russia and Northern Japan. Läs mer

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Sailing away from Valdez
20 augusti 2019, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
A picture-perfect day in Prince William Sound and Valdez.
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Seward, AK
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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.Läs mer
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Resenär Hi , I can see that smile John!
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Resenär I love the wide streets
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Resenär This would be a lovely photo without the smoke . Beautiful.
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Alaskan Sealife Centre
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
This centre opened in 1998 and generates and shares knowledge about Alaska's marine ecosystems. It conducts significant research into marine species and habitat.
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Alaskan Sealife Centre
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
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Puffins
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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.Läs mer
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King Crabs
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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,Läs mer
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Sights on Fourth Ave, Seward
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Fourth Avenue is the main shopping area of Seward. It is quirky and charming with many interesting artisan shops.
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Murals in Seward
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Many of the town's blanks walls are painted with murals depicting the environment, the indigenous culture and the town's history.
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Loading supplies onto Orion
21 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 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.Läs mer
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Resurrection Bay, AK
22 augusti 2019, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Sailing out. of Seward, the bushfire smoke tracks us until dark - along Resurrection Bay and Cook Inlet
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Sunset at sea
22 augusti 2019, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
With the fire smoke, the sun is getting redder as it sets beyond the Kenai Peninsula
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Kodiak
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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.Läs mer
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Resenär Yellow school bus!
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Resenär Quirky touches like this make it
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Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Centre
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 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.Läs mer
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Kodiak History Museum
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 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.Läs mer
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A Timeline on the Windows
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
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A Russian heritage
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 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.Läs mer
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Kodiak
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 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.Läs mer
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Allutiiq Museum
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
The Alutiiq have lived in this area for 7,500 years. Their subsistence lifestyle has made them masters of their seasonal environment.
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St Herman Orthodox Seminary, Kodiak
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Beautifully preserved timber structure, St Herman was a monk who came to Kodiak in 1794. he had an orphanage and school on Spruce Island nearby.
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Holy Resurrection RussianOrthodox Church
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
An active congregation still worship their faith in this church which dates back to the Russian heritage of this island. Fire has destroyed this building several times, but the congregation rebuild.
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On the streets of Kodiak
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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.Läs mer
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Kodiak Harbour
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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.Läs mer
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Resenär Love this photo , kodiak is what I expected Seward to look like
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A Sea Otter in Kodiak Harbour
22 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
A sea otter has taken up residence in the marina. We can get really close.
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Resenär Looks like you have the better angle!
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Resenär Up go the padded feet ! Cute pose!
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Resenär Amazing wildlife
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Dutch Harbour, Unalaska
24 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 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.Läs mer
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WWII Museum, Dutch Harbour
24 augusti 2019, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌧 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.Läs mer
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