Kodiak Island "Alaska's Emerald Isle"

Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak Island is the second largest island in the United States and the 80th largest island in the world, with an area of 3465 square miles. It is 100 miles long and in width ranges from 10 to 60 miles.

The green is so intense; Kodiak Island is called the Emerald Isle. And all that green is stretched over a landscape of jagged peaks, rolling hills and grassy flatlands, bordered by the ever changing sea. Some shorelines are quite & still and others; such as surfers beach, have waves continually crashing. Some of the beaches are sand, some gravel & others very rocky, all beautiful.