Wednesday...August 26..our last day on Kodiak Island.

We sleep in today with nothing on our agenda. After a leisurely breakfast with Ron, our host at Beaver Creek Lodge; we say our goodbyes to him & work on rearranging the truck for travel.

Our first stop is for ice to keep our salmon & halibut nice and cold until ready to eat. Then we stop by Kodiak Smoking and Mikey makes arrangements to ship our catch of yesterday to McMinnville "at his sisters".

It's very rainy this morning and the fog has covered the tops of the mountains. We realize we have been very blessed during our trip to have had such abnormally sunny days. Today is the day we read about and much more the norm for this island. Weather forecasters say a front is moving in with winds projected to be upwards of 55mph. We hope to have our return ferry ride over before the storm picks up. The sport fishing in the ocean is cancelled for today, we only see the commercial ships heading out to work. Even they come back in earlier this afternoon than we have seen on the other days.

We take a drive north to Fort Ambercrombie State Historical Park. The trees here at the park are very unusal. They are covered with heavy moss. Mikey says it's very common in the North Woods.

Fort Ambercrombie is the historic ruins of a World War II coastal defense installation. We were able to see the old bunkers & cannons on the hillside. Very interesting. FYI....Alaska was the only state in the US to actually be invaded by the Japanese during the war. This park is where our 3 fellow fishermen are tent camping. They also have no vehicle on the island and are hitch hiking wherever they go. Doesn't that sound like fun, especially with 55mph winds & heavy rain. They are here for 3-4 more days. Wonder what they'd trade for some dry socks on day 3?

We visited the National Wildlife Center for a little educational experience about the island. We found that very interesting.

Next stop the Kodiak Brewery for a little souvenir of Kodiak beer and Kodiak wine.

Lunch was nice at the Old Powerstation right on the channel and we sat & watch the ocean.

A stop by the pharmacy for some highly recommended seasickness pills before we head off to check in at the ferry terminal. Tonight we will be traveling on the older ferry, the Tustumena. This ship is quite smaller that the Kennicott we came over on (even more reason to worry about being seasick). We check in with the ship's pursor to get our berth assignments for the night. I am pleasantly surprised to find our berths are inside a private room. We settle in for the night.