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!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

May 17 Off to Bear Island

I left Kodiak for Bear Island this afternoon.  I have been in Alaska for exactly 5 weeks today.  I have enjoyed staying in Kodiak and getting used to living in Alaska but its time to move on to fishing camp.  I flew out this afternoon from Kodiak airport in an 8 seat prop plane for Larsen Bay.  I will need to get down to the harbor in Larsen Bay and then catch the boat to Bear Island.  My updates will be much less frequent now since there is no cell phone coverage on Bear Island.  I can contact home in case of an emergency by satellite phone.   I hope they got the banya (a steam room used in place of a shower) on Bear Island fixed since it hasn't been working for the past ten days.  The washing machine on Bear Island is broken also so clothes is being washed by hand currently.  I have sent another group of pictures back home so you can look for them in about a week.  Bye for now.
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