Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Kodiak, Alaska. So pretty! I don't normally post so many photos, but I had a hard time narrowing it down. Hope you enjoy them:
This is the view from the end of the boat docks where I had my soy mocha at 6:30 a.m. – crazy early for me! But it was too beautiful to languish in the hotel.
A shell resting against this tiny rock looked to me like a little mouse there on the beach. Cute!
A shipwreck in the distance.
The sun filtering down to the mossy forrest bed reminded me so much of the woods in Washington state.
Farther along down the coast…the landscape started to remind me of Montana. That could have had something to do with the horses that were wandering free too. :o)
A nice view from the beach I found the "mouse" on.
An often photographed church in downtown Kodiak.
This is actually on Near Island, just across the bridge from Kodiak. What an ideal place to live, right? Guess I'm not the only one that thinks so:
“I feel as if I wanted to go back, to Kodiak. Almost as if I could return there to live. So secluded, so remote, so peaceful; such a mingling of the domestic, the pastoral, the sylvan, with the wild and the rugged; such emerald heights, such flowery vales, such blue arms and recesses of the sea, and such a vast green solitude stretching away to the west, and to the north and to the south.
Bewitching Kodiak! The spell of thy summer freshness and placidity is still upon me.”
John Burroughs, Alaska: The Harriman Expedition, 1899