Day 4: Anchorage to Kodiak Island

It was an early flight from Anchorage to Kodiak . . . this time it was on Era Alaska and another one of those small planes and to make matters worse it was raining . . . thankfully it was only an one hour flight.  And in true fashion with this trip the flight was delayed.  I think at this point 60% of our flights have been delayed.  We finally took off and arrived in Kodiak.  It was around noon so grabbed lunch at Subway before setting off to explore the area . . . compared to Dutch Harbor this town is huge!  Our first stop was the Baranov Museum. 

Colin loved stalking watching the ravens outside . . .

Around the corner was the Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Cathedral founded in 1794 . . .

. . . there were these three tourist taking photos . . . they were taking forrrr-evvvvver . . . there are only so many different combinations you can take photos of each other with so I stood back thinking they would take a few more and move along . . . literally after 15 minutes I gave up and took my photos later.  This is the fourth church building and was built in the 1940s after a fire.  The old bells were neat too . . .

We continued on our walk and the last two places on our list were closed today but open tomorrow.  Back to the car to find another place to visit.  On the other side of the bridge was the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center.  You sign in and can explore certain parts of the building.  We ended up downstairs near the touch tanks.  Colin wasn't so into picking up or touching the critters; I mean it literally took at least 20 minutes to get him to pick up this crab.  You could tell he really wanted to but well he was a little nervous . . .

. . . they had this huge King Crab in a tank that I wanted him to stand near so you could see just how big these things are but well he wasn't so into that either . . .

. . . you would have thought it was going to jump out of the tank and attack him.  When we returned to the car, I pulled out the Alaska book again . . . I mean it is too early to call it a day and head to the hotel, LOL.  Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park was on our list to see tomorrow but noticed they had a Kodiak Military History Museum that was only opened on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from 1:00pm-4:00pm . . . it was Monday at 3:30pm.  If we were going to see this place we had to do it now, so off we went. 

. . . it was super cool and so glad we went when we did.  The lady inside was a volunteer and a delight to visit with . . . she was so friendly and loved helping Colin with all the communication devices.  The museum was inside one of the old bunkers and super cool.  One room had a lot of the old communication phones and typewriters set up so you could actually call from area to area.  We had fun!

The museum was closing so we headed outside to enjoy the views . . .

. . . and one last bunker for the Japanese invasion that never came thanks to Kodiak's lousy weather . . .

It was back to the hotel so we could figure out where to have dinner since most places were closed on Monday.  We were walking outside the hotel when I asked a man walking his dog his favorite place to eat.  He told me a place that was closed so we continued on our mission.  He called out to get my attention and told me where not to eat; hey that works too.  We ended up at a place called Henry's Great Alaskan Restaurant where apparently the rest of the town was eating too.