Friday, August 07, 2009

Morning is breaking

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Downtown Sitka awakens across the channel from Japonski Island as Arrowhead looms in the background.
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Any port at sea

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ANB Harbor shelters many of Sitka's commercial fishing boats. It is located downtown, right across from the Pioneer Bar, where many of t...

From the North

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Here's the view coming to Sitka from the northwest. Alaska Airlines provides twice-daily jet service to Juneau and Anchorage, and the sa...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Rescuers of the lost

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A U. S. Coast Guard helicopter flies over St. Michael's Orthodox Church during the Fourth of July parade this year.
Monday, August 03, 2009

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(Remember, if you would like to see a larger image of any of these photos, just click on the image, and when finished viewing, click on the ...
Sunday, August 02, 2009

Governor Palin on Alaska Day

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Governor (now former Governor) Sarah Palin attended the Alaska Day flag-raising ceremony at Castle Hill in 2007, as have most governors sinc...
Saturday, August 01, 2009

Sail away

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The cruise ship Carnaval Spirit heads down Chatham Straits towards Juneau. Many of the ships won't be returning to Southeast Alaska nex...

Harbor reflections

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Crescent Harbor, Sitka

Smoke break

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A couple of crew members share a moment on deck as they head out for a seine fish opening.

Guardians of the sea

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A small boater heads out to sea, knowing that if he runs into serious trouble, the U. S. Coast Guard stands ready to rescue him. Thei...

Not too close!

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Grandson Max watches warily as we approach a large iceberg with a heart shaped opening
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This year's Christmas Card

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My son's father-in-law, Dr. Phil Bearsdlee of Petersburg, took us on a three-day excursion between Juneau and his home port. We cruised ...

Catberg

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Looked like a cat to me. Was covered with seagulls sunning on its back.

To the beach

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Son Sam takes our grandchildren Max and Kinsey for a run to the beach to look for various flotsam, jetsam and critters under the rocks.

Mending his own business

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A seine boat crew member endures the tedious job of finding and repairing holes in the large purse seine used in corralling thousands of s...

Seinework

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Crew members work on thousands of feet of seine nets in preparation for the next seine fish opening.

Small fish in a big pond

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It is hard to capture the sheer magnitude of Tracy Arm with a photograph, but if you'll keep in mind that the sailboat dwarfed by th...

Drift ice

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A mile from the face of Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm, a group of small icebergs floats down towards Stephens Passage.

A little less glacier, a little more ocean

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Giant chunks of ice cascade off the face of South Sawyer Glacier into the frigid headwaters of Tracy Arm.

Alpha Mail

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A bull sea lion communicates by bellowing what sounds like a horn from an old Model T.

Puppy love

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Two young sea lions rest on the beach south of Admiralty Island, probably waiting for their mother to bring them some tasty seafood.

Sitka Sound

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Once called Norfolk Sound by early British sailors. Every time I'm on a boat fishing or whale watching, I imagine what it must have bee...

Checking the wind

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A lone para-sailer readies his chute for a wild ride off Harbor Mountain, just above Sitka, with Mt. Edgecumbe in the distance.

Peace

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After a full day of cruising, we anchored in Gambier Bay on the south end of Admiralty Island.

Not waiting his turn

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A humpback whale nonchalantly dives under a passing tug and barge carrying cargo up Stephens Passage between Petersburg and Juneau.

Ruffled feathers

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I don't think he liked my flash attachment.

Bear foot, but not pregnant

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One of the two brother bears at the Fortress of the Bear in Sitka, shows off his size 32 paw. http://www.fortressofthebear.org/
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Mendenhall Glacier

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Over near Juneau, my other stomping grounds and hometown, Mendenhall Glacier quietly retreats up the mountain side into the Juneau Icefiel...

Coastal beauty

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During fishing off Biorka Island, about fifteen miles from downtown Sitka, a view of a couple of islands framing distant clouds demanded s...

In the trough

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Mt. Edgecumbe looms in the background as this charter fishing boat slips into partial view in the trough of a wave passing between our boa...

Spotted in mid-flight

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Bald eagles can almost turn on a dime when they spot an edible object in the water below. This one was heading right for us when somethin...

Loafers and fishes

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My father-in-law, Pete Karras and yours truly claim bragging rights, along with other family members who took part in a gray morning's...

Corks on the deck

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The seine skiff operator awaits the next set as his fellow crewmen unload the net after surrounding a school of salmon with their purse...

Different kinds of fishing

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A salmon troller drags his lines in the distance as a pod of humbacks prepare to dive for their dinner.

A whale of a meal

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One more shot of a group of bubble net feeders.

Double Header

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A pair of humpbacks dive for the bottom, accompanied by at least ten others; all of whom surface five minutes later in a bubble net feed.

Bubble bath

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Humpback whales burst through the surface with mouths full of sea life in a maneuver known as bubble net feeding. Visit the following...

All to ourselves

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Beaver Lake trail hikers cool off with a skiff ride in a row boat available to the public.

Follow the arrows

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A boat from Sitka's fishing fleet heads out of the harbor and a sailboat in through the breakwater built by the U. S. Army Corp of Eng...

Transfer

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Modern military and costumed performers stand at attention after the U. S. flag replaces the Russian flag during the reenactment of the 18...

Hail to the Gov

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Sarah Palin attended the 2007 Alaska Day reenactment of the 1867 flag-raising which occurred after Alaska was purchased from Russia. Durin...

I'm sailing....I'm a sailor

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Keith Greba and guests enjoy a day on Sitka Sound on his sailboat, the Pearl.

Island Paradise

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Biorka Island, about fifteen miles from downtown Sitka, is the site of an FAA facility that monitors aviation in the area.

Wave goodbye

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A seiner heads home after the end of the Sitka Sac Roe Fishery in early April.
Thursday, January 01, 2009

Horizons

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Just minutes from downtown Sitka is Harbor Mountain Road, built during the Depression during the military build up prior to WWII. At the top...
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The waiting fleet

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Sunset casts beautiful colors over New Thompson Harbor last July. Sitka's fishing fleet is a main source of "new" dollars comi...

Sitka Sound Sentinel

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Mt. Edgecumbe sits on Kruzoff Island, about fourteen miles from downtown Sitka and highlights one of the most beautiful settings of any town...

Surf's up!

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Just two miles from downtown Sitka, a hardy group of locals come out in any kind of weather to practice their surfing techniques as Mt. Edge...

Bishop's House

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Ivan Veniaminov, later canonized as St. Innocent by the Russian Orthodox Church, spent more than a decade in Sitka during the ea...

Snowcapped

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This awesome view of Mt. Edgecumbe is from a newer subdivision out Sawmill Creek Road.
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Runway, or driveway?

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Coming from the south, Sitka's runway looks much smaller than its six thousand foot length, nearly three times the distance needed for a...