Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Kodiak, The Emerald Isle

Hi Everyone,
We have returned to Homer on the all night ferry from Kodiak.  We loved Kodiak Island!!  The hills are green with wildflower/grass cover, very few trees, but the ones growing are open grown and full foliage.  This gives a park like setting everywhere on the mountains. The most beautiful and enjoyable part are the crescent shaped black sand beaches with rock cliffs on the sides. We walked many of them at low tide.  We drove all the roads and explored all the state parks and hiking trails.  Most the trails were in the rain forest with moss handing from the huge Sitka Spruce. We did not go inland via boat or bush plane to see the Kodiak Bears, we spent our wad already for that sort of thing on this trip.  Maybe the next time!!!  We did see huge bear tracks along the Buskin River near where we camped, the salmon are coming into that river.

We did take a day boat trip to Soldovia from Homer, a delightful community and lots of sea bird and mamals along the way.  We are heading to Seward and then on to Denali, we have made the turn to the East.

Any emails from you would be appreciated!!!  Guess, we are a little hungry for news of your adventures and events of the Summer!!

Take Care, Ned and Carol

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