First Visit to Foul Bay on Kodiak Island: Kayaking, Intertidal Life, and Bushwhacking a Fairy Forest
You gotta be prepared for anything when you go on adventures with UnCruise. This was on a kayak I was leading, but we stopped at this waterfall for some fun photos and a little rock climbing. After our day of glaciers in Kenai Fjords National Park, our inaugural expedition cruise onboard the Safari Explorer took us across the Shelikof Strait to Kodiak Island. We pulled into Foul Bay early in the morning with hopes of exploring by kayak, skiff, and hiking. However the weather tried its best to thwart our plans. Where we anchored was about 25knot sustained winds, with some sideways rain to go with it. However, this is UnCruise, so we came up with a plan to make it all still happen. We tied off our kayaks to one of the small boats, and towed them ashore to a rocky beach. The coastline blocked us from most of the wind, so we loaded up and shoved off from the beach. Success! We ended up finding waterfalls, ponds filled with mergansers, eagles in the trees, arctic terns and puffins alo...