Casey, Eric and I on the sunny day when we arrived at Pasagshak.

Four bald eagles - two adults and two juveniles - wait for the tide to rise for the red salmon to run up the Pasagshak River.

Panoramic view of Pasagshak Bay. On the left (east) is Pasagshak Point. Looking straight down the bay is almost due south.

Casey is Dirty Harry.

Eric is too.

But this is what happens when it's my turn to shoot.

The Isthmus of Isthmus Bay, Chiniak Hwy, south of the city of Kodiak.

If you walk out the isthmus at low tide and wait until high tide to try to get back, you may get stuck.

Lupine are everywhere. These particular ones are at Kalsin Bay, just west of the Pasagshak turnoff from the Chiniak Hwy. Member of the pea family.

Around Kodiak

A jellyfish. And another. Even better, the view from the SeaHawk Air dock where I saw the jellyfish.

The old log chapel and the Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Church date from the oldest Russian settlements in Alaska.

Aerial Photography

Womens Bay, just as we were leaving Kodiak.

"Sharp-crested alpine peaks with small cirque glaciers rise to elevations between 3,000 and 4,000 feet within a great granitic massif exposed along the axis of Kodiak Island." - Thor Karlstrom, The Kodiak Island Refugium, 1969.

A very high lake.

A river choked with glacial sediment

We're getting dropped off on the spit in Jap[anese] Bay

Bye Rolan!

Jap[anese] Bay

On the first day at Jap[anese] Bay, I left Casey and Eric to build the shelter and went for a hike up the peak due west of the spit. Jap[anese] Bay itselftrends almost due south toward the ocean. This is what I saw.

Looking south across Kaguyak Bay toward the ocean.

Looking north into the interior mountains

Looking down at my feet into the spongy moss.

This is the masterpiece of my photo collection. the Jap Bay Panoramic.
Things to note:
The Japanese family for whom the bay is named apparently lived at the head of the bay, on the left of this view.
You can see our camp near the base of the spit - look for three little yellow tents and a blue tarp.
The island south southeast of the bay is Two-Headed Island.
Those little rocks in the middle of the bay mouth are covered in puffins, murres, gulls.

MISCELLANEOUS
What We Brought Along (note: it was too much stuff!