Misc

Here are some miscellaneous pictures I have taken.

This is a picture of the clouds at sunrise one morning this last week. I woke up, saw the clouds out my bedroom window, and grabbed the digital camera. Of course, the batteries were dead, so I quickly changed them and snapped this pic.

Later that morning when I got out to work, the clouds were coming in over the cape. The sun was making a neat reflection on the ocean, so I took this pic.

Here is a picture of one of the mountains on the way to work (nearly to the range). You can see how rainy it looks. The weather at the range is often different from what is in town 30-something miles away.

Here is a picture of the mountains at the range. The low-level clouds that are often seen out at the range make great pictures.

Here, the buffalo are crossing the road (and obviously the cars must stop!). The buffalo have been moving quite a bit lately.

Here is a small part of the herd of buffalo. There are a lot more in the valley behind the buffalo you can see, but I couldn't get a pic of them all.

Here is a pic of the mountains on my way to church this morning. They were reflecting the sunlight quite brightly, but the digital camera couldn't capture the full effect.

Church here in Kodiak is a little different. Last weekend, I went to the published location for the WELS Lutheran church here in Kodiak, but there was nobody there. I went to a different church with one of my friends here (it was a community church). Well, apparently the WELS church here meets in one of the member's homes because the pastor is here only about once per month and there are a total of about 19 members. So, it was about a 7 mile bike ride round trip to their house, where 6 of us were there listening to the service being broadcasted from Anchorage over the phone.

Well, I think I am going to start documenting my total travel mileages now:
Foot: ~30 miles
Bike: ~19 miles
Car: ~1000 miles (It is 95.6 miles roundtrip to the range. I haven't driven any of these miles!)
Boat: ~6 miles
Plane: ~3450 miles

(Here is a better map of the part of the island I will be in probably all summer.)