The first full day at sea...

commenced with an early exploration of The Triplets, a series of three small islands, by Zodiac. Here you can see passengers leaving the Clipper Odyssey for their several hour long adventure:

In addition to a plethora of puffins, five fledgling bald eagles, countless cormorants and sea otters, I attempted to make the uplifted sea floor sandstones seem somewhat interesting:

Later in the afternoon we visited the town of Kodiak, and visited the oldest structure in Alaska, built more than 200 years ago. This is a historic image of the building that now houses the Baranov Museum, dusted by tephra from the 1912 explosion of Novarupta volcano on Katmai:

And here's the structure as it stands today during our visit:

Just a short distance out of town is Fort Abercrombie, a World War II outpost, where the 8-inch guns and turrets stand as a memorial to battles that were never fought:

Lastly, the "touch tank" at the Fisheries Research Center was a hit with the passengers, where they were able to handle live crabs, anemones, urchins, star fish, sea cucumbers among various marine critters:

We are now underway to Geographic Harbor at Katmai National Park. I won't reveal what's planned for tomorrow, as that would spoil the surprise.