So after Ken and Martha headed to the Katmai for their tour, we settled in at the B&B and started doing some touring around 
the
island by car. The weather was not nice to us the first couple of days, as it was cloudy, drizzly, and cool, but we still headed out to see what there was to see. The owner of the B&B had told us about an eagle nest at the fairgrounds nearby, so we stopped by to check it out. The nest is huge and takes up most of the top half of the tree it is in. We could not see any birds in the nest, we quickly noticed the two adults in the top of a tree nearby. Then we spotted two juveniles on some stumps near the ground. They would fly from one stump to another near the ground but never got too high up. The adults kept calling in their direction, perhaps trying to encourage them to get higher off the ground.
We picked Jordy up from the kennel where he was staying while on Kodiak and took him out for a day of touring. We would have liked to do this more, but he was staying with a family and it was hard to get ahold of them sometime, it wasn’t like he was at a business where there would always be someone there for a drop off or pick up, so this one day was it, until we picked him up on the last day before returning to Homer. There were two days at the B&B when we were the only ones staying there, and we probably could have had him there in the evening, but we didn’t think about doing that until it was too late. As it was, he seemed to do fine where he was, and he was very happy to see us when we picked him up.
On the third day there, we woke up to sunshine, and we knew would not be able to squander it. Now there are only so many roads to drive on on Kodiak Island, and one of them leads to a bay on the northern side of the island called Anton Larsen Bay, where there are a couple of boat ramps. So we headed up that way thinking it would be nice to put the kayaks in. We packed a lunch, and did just that. The water was nice and calm, the sea birds were active on the water, including Puffins, Kittiwakes, Oyster catchers, Pigeon Guillemots and Arctic Terns. We also saw a couple of otters and even jelly fish. It was one of our most unique kayaking trips so far.
The next day the weather was even better, so we headed to the most 
remote part of the island you can get to by car. Here is Fossil Beach, where you can walk along the cliffs among the tide pools and look for fossils which have dropped out of the sandstone cliffs. Ellyn actually came away with some nice pieces and we saw a lot of life in the tide pools. The only problem was that it was a bit smelly with all of the rotting kelp on the rocks. Afterwards, we got our beach chairs out of the car and ate or packed lunch while we watched some kids skinny-dipping on the surf. Yow! That water could not have been more than 50 degrees. There is also a rocket launch complex out there, where they launch satellites into polar orbit.
There rest of our days on Kodiak were mostly wet, but we still tried to see what we could. We went to the Fisheries Research Center on Near Island and found a wonderful aquarium and touch-tank there. We also went to the Alutiiq Museum, where they have many displays about the Native Americans in Alaska. One of the most interesting things there was their information on petroglyphs found on a remote part of Kodiak Island.
Even when the weather is cloudy and damp, we were struck with how green Kodiak Island is, likely because of all the rainfall they get there each year. Usually, it comes later in the year, and usually the weather is a bit warmer than it was while we were there, but it was still a really nice place to spend some time, and not many people get a chance to spend any time there. Although our traveling companions got to see many Kodiak Bears on their tour of the Katmai Peninsula, we did get to see one bear while on Kodiak. He was in the road on our way to the B&B and we were able to get some quick pictures before he disappeared into the woods.
