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, May 15, 2011

May 14

Working on final preparations for leaving Kodiak for Bear Island.  On Thursday we finished painting the engine room on the Cowboy and am now changing engine oil.  Its been a busy day in Kodiak with a cruise ship arriving in port.  Lots of new people in town all commenting on how beautiful Alaska is.  For those of you who watch Deadliest Catch, I have seen the Cornelia Marie and Time Bandit in St Herman harbor.  The Cowboy is parked right next to another crab boat which is not on Deadliest Catch.  There are about 60 of these crab fishing boats in Alaska.  I have been having some interesting talks with the captain of that boat about what it is really like fishing for crab on the Bering Sea which is a little bit different than the TV series portrays.  After crab fishing season, these boats are used as tenders which means they carry supplies out to the salmon fishing fleet and carry the salmon catch back to the processing plants.  Weather continues to be in the 40's and since I am working in the harbor where you get a lot of sea breeze, I need to wear a sweater to stay warm.  Tomorrow Nate Vanderwall, one of my friends from De Motte will be joining me in Kodiak.  Both of us leave on Monday for Bear Island.
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