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| church belltower |
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| Russian Orthodox Church |
We
had arrived at Kodiak by the time we woke in the morning. One of the
advantages of cruising is that you see somewhere different each day
and do most of the travelling in-between overnight. Kodiak is part
of
another rain forest and true to form it was raining and misty when
we decided to leave the boat and visit the town. It was a short
shuttle ride away. We had a quick walk through the town which again
was not too inspiring. We had heard that there
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| church interior |
was a Russian
Orthodox church here from the time that Alaska was Russian and we
found this
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| church interior |
typical style church. It is still in use as there some
locals brought up that way. It had some lovely paintings and icons
but not on the scale of St Petersburg which we visited last year.
After
this we found the wildlife center which was interesting and watched a
film about conservation on the island. It has Kodiak bears which are
different and bigger than other
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| exhibit at wildlife center |
North American bears. We did not see
any in the wild and neither did we see any river otters which live in
the local river. After this we decided to go back to the ship for
lunch.
In
the stairwells on the ship
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| Dover Castle |
are paintings of former Holland America
ships and near our cabin is a picture of a boat passing Dover Castle
which I thought I would include. We relaxed and read for the rest of
the afternoon apart from a mile walk around a deck. The sea was a bit lumpy!
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