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Kodiak is for South West Alaska, what Ketchikan is for South East Alaska. The rainy City; it can rain a lot here. However we did not see any rain at all. They have dry days and those days are in the summer. *We had one of those dry days with even a ray of sunshine coming through. During the night the ship sailed from Homer into the southern part of Cook Inlet and then curved around Elizabeth Island back into the Gulf of Alaska. From there it was a more or less straight southerly course to Kodiak Island. The town Kodiak is located on the east side of Kodiak Island which gives it shelter from the nasty Winter weather. *As it is an island everything has to go and come by either plane or ship and the island has its own container terminal. As there is a lively fishing industry the island has several other docks as well. A second source of income is tourism, with the emphasis on Eco tourism and fishing. Visiting cruise ships help of course as well. Thus we docked this morning at dock nbr 2. While dock nbr 1 is the container dock and then further up the port is a 3rd dock for the Alaska State Ferry which is one of the connections with the main land. Because the port of Kodiak is directly connected to the open Ocean, the water is not pushed up a fjord as is the case with Cook Inlet. The tidal range is not as extreme as in Anchorage; where 20+ feet is not unusual. Here in Kodiak today it was a more modest 6.5 feet.* It made life a lot easier for the ship as it did not have to move the gangway around so often. For the crew it was a busy day as there was a General Boat drill for everybody. This is a three stage alarm but with me on board giving separate fire fighting training and drills, the first stage was omitted and we started with the Crew Alert Alarm. This alarm indicates that […]
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Kodiak is for South West Alaska, what Ketchikan is for South East Alaska. The rainy City; it can rain a lot here. However we did not see any rain at all. They have dry days and those days are in the summer. *We had one of those dry days with even a ray of sunshine coming through. During the night the ship sailed from Homer into the southern part of Cook Inlet and then curved around Elizabeth Island back into the Gulf of Alaska. From there it was a more or less straight southerly course to Kodiak Island. The town Kodiak is located on the east side of Kodiak Island which gives it shelter from the nasty Winter weather. *As it is an island everything has to go and come by either plane or ship and the island has its own container terminal. As there is a lively fishing industry the island has several other docks as well. A second source of income is tourism, with the emphasis on Eco tourism and fishing. Visiting cruise ships help of course as well. Thus we docked this morning at dock nbr 2. While dock nbr 1 is the container dock and then further up the port is a 3rd dock for the Alaska State Ferry which is one of the connections with the main land. Because the port of Kodiak is directly connected to the open Ocean, the water is not pushed up a fjord as is the case with Cook Inlet. The tidal range is not as extreme as in Anchorage; where 20+ feet is not unusual. Here in Kodiak today it was a more modest 6.5 feet.* It made life a lot easier for the ship as it did not have to move the gangway around so often. For the crew it was a busy day as there was a General Boat drill for everybody. This is a three stage alarm but with me on board giving separate fire fighting training and drills, the first stage was omitted and we started with the Crew Alert Alarm. This alarm indicates that […]
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