Kennicott Ferry
Kodiak
On the Ferry
The boys basketball team went to Kodiak Island for two games this weekend. We played Friday and Saturday, but the travel to and from Kodiak made it a much longer journey. We left Wednesday after school to travel to Whittier where we spent our first night at their small 4 classroom school in the gym. The next morning we boarded a state ferry and left on our first sea voyage of the trip (22 hours). The ferry took us through Prince William Sound with many mountains that fall off into the ocean and eventually to open ocean for the second part of our "cruise". I saw a harbor seal and 3 different pods of Dall Porpoises. The overnight portion of the trip found me sleeping toward the middle of the boat on a plastic fold-out lawn chair that people have in their back yards. I never felt sea sick but we were told that seas reached 18ft. when we were out in the Gulf. The cool part of taking the ferry was that we could sleep anywhere that we wanted to on the boat. There are a lot of large open viewing rooms (with not very many people on a good size vessel) so we found one that worked for us and set up camp. We were arriving at Kodiak just before day break and some of the rocks were gorgeous as you looked out at the ocean. The basketball games went well. Kodiak really gets the gym rocking with a lot of community pride. My team lost the first game on a last second shot, and then we got blown out the next day. The Varsity games were very good. Kenai won by one on Friday and lost by 4 on Saturday. As is with every out of town weekend trip we slept on the floor in classrooms at the school Friday night and were back on the ferry Saturday night. We arrived in Homer around 2PM and I finally got home around 5:30 PM Sunday evening.
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