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Published: September 1st 2006
approaching Kodiak
First morning and the sun was out. This is Kodiak Island> I landed in Anchorage on Sunday, August 20th to the 14th consecutive day of rain in south-central Alaska. Bag handlers, taxi drivers and radio hosts all sounded deflated and resigned to an early, dark winter. But it wasn't to be, for a day, at any rate. Monday morning the sun was out in full force, though by Tuesday morning, when my friend Jamie -who flew up from New York- and I got on the Homer Stage bus in midtown Anchorage, the skies turned snow-pregnant gray and the drizzle came down
As we got on the highway and turnd the bend onto the long, scenic stretch that hugs the Turnagain Arm, the rain was whipping the broadside of our van unabated. It continued almost for almost the entire 7-hour ride down to Homer, and we began to feel that perhaps it was really a mistake to arrange for a weeklong trip at the end of August, a notoriously wet month in Alaska. But, as if Zues himself decided enough was enough (as we snaked our way down the Kenai Peninsula and watched the sun struggle to break thru the clouds, I remarked to Jamie that Agamemnon and Zues were battling it
Jamie pontificating
Jamie Fry, capturing the essence of it all out, but he corrected that Agamemnon was a merely an earthly ruler, not a god, so it couldn't be so) and when we stepped out of the van down on the Homer spit the clouds had parted and I was actually reaching for my sunblock, which I did not bring (WHY would one need sunblock in Alaska in late August?)
Hence began a 4-day odyssey from the tip of "The Kenai" Homer, out to Kodia, across the Shelikof Strait to the Alaska Peninsula making stops at small fishing villages until we termiated at Dutch Harbor/Unalaska islands, approx halfway out on the Aleutian chain.
Here are some photos from the journey:
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