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Vacation Guide</B></div> <div> Welcome to Island Byways, a weekly show about what's going on around Kodiak Island Alaska.</div> <div> Learn about life on the island including wildlife (bears, whales and eagles), fishing, hiking, kayaking, the arts, music, wildflowers and more.   Tune in each week on the web at: <A HREF="http://www.islandbyways.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.islandbyways.com/">www.islandbyways.com</A></div> <div> Index</div> <div>                                                                 </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="581" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#99FFCC > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 188 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2147d7e0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="213460e0.gif" border=0 width="70" height="14" ALT="5 points" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Kodiak Chamber of Commerce Phone: 907-486-5557<I> </I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.kodiak.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.kodiak.org">http://www.kodiak.org</A></FONT></div> <div> Kodiak Island Convention & Visitors Bureau 100 Marine Way 99615</div> <div> <I>Transportation to Kodiak</I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>Kodiak Island</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The first settlement in Alaska was established on Kodiak Island in 1784 by Russian whalers and fur traders. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">No place on Kodiak Island is more than 15 miles from the ocean. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Kodiak Island group is the size of Connecticut. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kodiak Island is 3,588 sq. miles and is the second largest island in the US! (Hawaii is the largest with 4,038 sq. miles). </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kodiak has 900 miles of coastline! </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kodiak is known as the <I>Alaska’s</I> <I>Emerald Isle</I> due to the beautiful lush green mountainsides of summer. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">There are approximately 3,000 Kodiak Bears on the Kodiak Island archipelago. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The town of Kodiak is Alaska’s largest fishing port. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kodiak is home to the largest Coast Guard base in the United States. </div> <bR> <div> Kodiak Island is famous for huge Kodiak brown bears, world-class sport fishing, one of the largest commercial fishing ports in the nation, and the magnificent green that the island turns during the summer--which is why Kodiak is affectionately called <I>Alaska's Emerald Isle</I>. </div> <div> The Kodiak Island Borough, with a population of 13,900 persons includes The City of Kodiak, seven villages, the U.S. Coast Guard Base, plus several remote camps and lodges.</div> <bR> <div> <B>KODIAK  MOMENTS</B></div> <div> <I><B>Region is a picture of nature at its finest</B></I></div> <div> Tim Chapman,   Miami Herald, May 25, 2003</div> <bR> <div> SEAL BAY,  Alaska - When most people think of Kodiak Island, they think of it's namesake brown bear, perhaps wading in a stream with a salmon in it's mouth.   But beyond the bears lies a wilderness so thick with wildlife that you will think you've gone to Discovery Channel heaven.</div> <div> My son Eric, 21, and I were headed salmon fishing on Afognak Island in the Kodiak Islands, a 30-minute floatplane ride from the town of Kodiak.  In the first five minutes of our flight, we soared over a whale breaching, a Kodiak bear walking a lonely beach, bald eagles winging above the coast and salmon so thick they were jumping at the mouths of several small rivers.</div> <bR> <div> The salmon, we knew, were the lure for all the rest.  It is here that tender red-fleshed fish are born, swim out to sea and then return to spawn a new generation and die at their birthplace.  The region is considered home to some of the world's finest salmon fishing.</div> <bR> <div> The floatplane slipped into the protected bay of Afognak Wilderness Lodge, where we would stay in log cabins crafted by the hands of our hosts, Roy & Shannon Randall.</div> <bR> <div> Larger cabins boast 2 bedrooms, a living room & modern bathrooms; one even has a full-size mounted Kodiak bear.  Our one-room cabin featured woodsy furniture and a potbellied stove with wood split and ready to burn.  All offer views of the wild, forested fjord bay with dining in the 2-storey lodge where gourmet meals are followed by satellite TV.</div> <bR> <div> To get there, we had flown from "down below" to Anchorage, where we collapsed for an overnight respite before hopping a 1-hour flight to the cozy town of Kodiak, population of about 7,000.</div> <bR> <div> Nearly a century before, the Russians sold this territory to the United States and Kodiak became the first capital of Russia-America in 1792.  The legacy survives and today's visitors still stop in at the 18th-century Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Church, with its distinctive blue cupola.</div> <bR> <div> At the Baranof Museum, once a sea-otter pelt warehouse, the past is recalled through prehistoric artifacts, ceramics & dolls from the Russian era; photos of the destruction from the 1964 tsunami, caused by the earthquake on the mainland; & W.W. II memorabilia showing photos of a time when 25,000 troops were stationed there to fight the Japanese.</div> <bR> <div> And now, I was sitting on the dock looking out at Seal Bay, watching countless huge ghostlike jellyfish of all colors drift by in the clear water.  I slowly photographed a sea-otter, more curious than afraid, and thought of a time when man came only for the otter pelts.  Here I was, coming all these miles just to get a photo of one.</div> <bR> <div> The next day, Eric and I experienced some of the best silver salmon fishing in the world and caught so many on both spin and fly-rods that our hands were swollen from fighting the fish.  Though the fishing was superb, we were most impressed with the wildlife.</div> <bR> <div> On the first trip up the coast to a river mouth, we saw humpback whales blowing right next to the boat, sea-lions basking on outcroppings, seals bobbing in the kelp beds and more than 35 bald eagles on just one bank.   All in one hour.</div> <bR> <div> Another day, we went with the Randall's on a short expedition up a salmon-crowded stream to see the famed bears.  And there, just 20 yards below us, we spotted a cub working his way up a creek bed.  The bad news. . . it saw us too and bolted up the opposite hill so fast that I didn't get a decent photo.</div> <bR> <div> It didn't really matter.  We were here for the whole picture. . . fishing, bears and all.  With so much bounty, there was no way to catch it all.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <img src="HTMLobj-534/aniGif.gif" alt="Rent this Space" border="0" align="bottom" width="468" height="60">  </div> <bR> <div> Web Site by: AST2.com   Low Cost Business Sites</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>