You know you are in Kodiak when....

  • When traffic reports are replaced by the FISHING REPORTS
  • The water on the floor mat in your car is frozen
  • You automatically remove your boots when entering someone's home
  • You use flat-rate priority mail boxes more than envelopes
  • In Winter, you know who is taking their Vitamin D and who isn't
  • If you don't already have auto-start on your vehicle, you wish you had it
  • You know what a Coastie is, and it doesn't mean you live near the beach
  • You know what Xtra Tuffs are, and you have some
  • You have to do the Kodiak Stomp before entering a store
  • Just because you have a ticket to fly, doesn't mean you will actually leave that day--"weather permitting"
  • It's cheaper to buy DVD's than to have cable TV
  • Store clerks actually wish you a "Merry Christmas"
  • You hear people complain about having to drive "all the way to the other side of town" (10 minutes)
  • Traffic congestion is 3 cars at an intersection
  • Your car doesn't have a chance to warm up before you arrive at work
  • When looking out the window is more reliable than the weather forecast
  • You go to work, church, and shop with the same people
  • Driving a rusty car is "no big deal"

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Women's Bay Ice

Ice on Women's Bay, picture taken a couple weeks ago. The tide has broken sheets of ice.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Break in Snow fall...out and about for pictures mid January


Earlier in January we had some snow fall of about 18 inches. We had a break in the snow fall and took a ride around town and out past the airport for pictures. What a beautiful place!
Juvenile bald eagle soaring over Women's bay

Eagle

Eagle

Lots of eagles, they were feeding off a deer carcass





Women's Bay, looking across toward USCG base

Women's Bay looking towards Bell Flats



Upper Buskin River

Barometer Mt.

Bear Valley Golf Course, yep golf in Kodiak (okay, not in winter)

Lori, trying to jump...um, not so high

Upper Buskin

Upper Buskin, USCG communications towers

The Doz

Barometer, as seen from main road (kinda like a hwy)



Pic taken from viewpoint outside town

View of Pacific Ocean from the viewpoint

Looking up towards Pillar Mtn from town


With all the extra snow around town, the scooped piles are getting too big. Solution: dump the snow into the bay~


St. Paul Harbor, Pillar Mtn. in background
Ford dealership in foreground. They are the only dealership on the island. They also sell large kitchen appliances, too.

Eagles and black birds in a tree


Community Baptist Church, our Pastor is Todd Putney

Icicles on a local business. They didn't last too long, glad to get a picture.

Two bald eagles, the one in back is a juvenile

Same eagles, Matt taking a picture

View of Women's Bay looking back towards USCG


xtra-tuf's, a necessity

Matthew, the photographer :)

Happy in the truck

Thursday, January 20, 2011

January in Kodiak




Buskin River










Pyramid Mtn





Barometer Mtn.