Bear Island


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Bear Island

Bear Island is the 60 acre island shown in the map above designated with the letter A. This is the location of the commercial salmon fishing camp I will be working at. You get to Bear Island by taking a float plane from Kodiak to Larsen Bay and then travel 8 miles by boat to Bear Island. You can also take a boat from Kodiak to Bear Island which I think is about a 12 hour trip. The island to the right of Bear Island is Harvester Island. Duncan Fields and his family live on Harvester Island. If you zoom in on the map, you can see gravel bars which connect the island to the mainland. These are only visible during low tide.

Bear Island is located on the Shelikof Strait which is a body of water 150 miles long and 25-30 miles wide separating Alaska from Kodiak Island. The difference between high tide and low tide in this body of water is very large with the difference between low tide and high tide at the northern part of Shelikof Strait measuring up to 40 feet!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Tuesday, April 19

Working on the boat.  We need to scrape off the old barnacles.  Since the water temp in the harbor is 34 degrees, getting into the water is out of the question.  The tide rises and falls between 10-12 feet in the harbor.  There is a device under the boat which keeps it off the sea bottom when the tide goes out, so when the tide goes out, we climb over the side of the boat and start cleaning and sanding while standing on the sea bottom.
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