He shuttled a total of about 15 people out to Woody Island in his 4 person skiff. Woody Island is about 1 mile from Kodiak Island. On Saturday, we all helped clean up by moving brush and branches to burn them, splitting wood, building a new cabin, and running the sawmill. It was a lot of hard work that took about all day Saturday, but the people running the camp were amazed at how much we got done.
A few unique things that they had on the island that I had never seen before. One was a buoy swing, which consists of a rope tied high in a tree with a small rubber buoy tied at the other end. You jump onto the buoy which swings along the side of a hill. I may get a picture of one some other time. Another thing I had never seen was a fishing net hammock. We had to hike to the other end of the island, but it was a small (12' x 12') fishing net tied to some trees about 20 feet above the ground. Apparently, they actually had 5 people up in it at one point, and they also camped there once, too.
Here are a few pictures looking back at Kodiak Island from Woody Island.
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Here is a picture of one of the cabins on Woody Island, and the type of trees that the forests are made of. The ground is really mossy in the forests, and therefore is really nice to hike on because it is so soft.
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When we were clearing out the piles of branches, we found some baby bunnies. Here is one of them.
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Here is a view from the far side of the island close to the hammock. It was really foggy and windy, but made some good pictures.
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Here is the fishing net hammock. It was a little scary because I don't know anything about the strength of rope or knots, but I heard that Curtis is very good at tying knots (he is in the pictures).
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Well, I think I have finally caught up. I will try to keep everybody posted as I take new pictures with my digital camera and get out to do new stuff. Amazingly, I haven't taken any pictures with my SLR camera yet :(.
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