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On Location: Kodiak Island, a great start to an amazing trip!
Written by Zegrahm field leader, Bob Quaccia
We had a rainy, but eventful day, driving from Anchorage to meet the Clipper Odyssey in Seward. We awoke the next day to a drier, calmer scene. Three fin whales joined us for breakfast, as did a Dall’s porpoise on our way across Marmot Bay. We loaded into Zodiacs to explore the Triplet Islands near Kodiak. Thousands of tufted puffins and a few horned puffins were busy filling their beaks with small fish for their nestlings. A sea otter mom carried her pup on her belly. Harbor seals and a lone Steller sea lion surfaced nearby us as we poked around the kelp beds.
In the afternoon we learned about the native peoples of the region at the Alutiiq Museum. We then visited the oldest building in Alaska where the Kodiak Baranof Museum is housed. Here we learned of the Russian of exploration in the late 1700s when Kodiak became the first capital of Russian America. Finally, a stunning World War II exhibit in a refurbished bunker overlooking the dramatic Spruce cape topped off our day of exploration.
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