Explaination of posts of trip to King Cove

Ok, I think I have it all figured out so that my posts would show up in chronological order to make sense of my trip. It was a major ordeal.
On my post you will see on August 26--Back from KC Aug 9th -16th
Just ignore that post since it showed up before I made this presentation.

NEXT:
You will see dates starting from August 25th and going backwards for my trip. I had to do that because of the way I made the draft.

ANYWAYS: Just enjoy the show and ignore all the dates cause I made the trip from August 9-16.

(16) Adventure to King Cove, Alaska

On August 9th I headed off to King Cove. The trip was beautiful with views of numerous mountains including volcanoes. You can check out Alaskan volcanoes at this very informative site:http://www.avo.alaska.edu/ . King Cove is located at the end of the Alaska Peninsula, it is also where I was born and raised. As you can see, travel to King Cove is by small aircraft. The one from Anchorage to Cold Bay is called a Saab and carries about 20 people. The flight takes about 2 1/2 hours.
I couldn't help but remember what Psalms 121: 1-2 says, "I will lift my eyes to the mountains, from where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." Those mountains are so majestic and beautiful. My goodness, if God has the power to form these - He certainly has the power to help us in our every day lives!

(15) Leaving Cold Bay to King Cove

There is my sister Shirlee with two boxes of donuts for the family in King Cove-YUM!! I carried five dozen eggs in my carry-on and there was no breakage!! I had 10 lbs of potatoes on one of my suitcases. We just have to make the most of the trip cause things are soooo expensive down there.

Here I am climbing into the aircraft we took from Cold Bay to King Cove.

We flew over a blanket of fog the whole way from Cold Bay into the King Cove air field. It looked very beautiful. I just had faith that we were going to see the runway to land on.

(14) Yeah-we see the runway!!

Yes, we flew over the fog all the way from Cold Bay to King Cove-about a ten minute flight, then it was as clear as a bell on to the runway. The runway is about 5 miles from the community.
King Cove is located on that spit of land that you can see jutting out in the middle of the water. The road from the airfield is paved!!!

(13) Photos around King Cove

The beautiful active Mt. Pavlof can be be seen at a certain spot from King Cove. It spouts steam and lava often. You can see it in the background between the 2 mountains.My nephew is picking his nets close to town.

Here are a few delicious salmonberries!!

The Ram's subdivison in the distance.

The main part of the city of King Cove.

(12) More of King Cove

My dad gave me away in marriage 34 years ago on August 10th". My hubby was very nice to let me leave him during this time . My very creative flower girl whipped up this cake which we enjoyed. (you might want to click on the photo to get a beter view of the cake)This handsome little guy is my sister Bonnie's grandson. He has such a beautiful smile.

Here is Bonnie's other grandson . I had a hard time trying to get a good photo of him-he looks so much like his dad.

My brother Henry fishing just in front of town. Here is one of the many beautiful wild flowers growing around town.

(11) At the house

(10) activities while in KC

Shirlee thinks all this fish is hers-but reality will have to settle in!!Dad says that the fish looks good and we all agree!!

Shirlee and Dad put octopus in freezer bags.

Mom and Shirlee looking for cotton plants on the road to my land.

Mom and Shirlee picking cotton flowers.

(9) more activities

This is what I call REAL BLUE!!This is the view up the lagoon with part of Mt Dutton,the sleeping volcano that has snow on it.

Hard working on removing part of the carpet where we installed vinyl in my parent's house.

Laying the red carpet.

Wonderful new playground for the great grandkids. :)

(8) Leaving King Cove August 2008

Here is the view that I had while sitting up front of the aircraft with the very young pilot. As you can see, the weather looks great! I had a chance to go on the hovercraft which goes by water but I thought that I would get this short trip done with quickly so I flew since I already had the ticket for flying. Little did we know what we were in for. My sister, Bonnie and her youngest son were the only other people on the flight.

As you can see, the weather was closing in on us quickly!

The road in the photo is the road to take to the hovercraft landing, which is about 10 miles out of town.

(7) more of leaving KC

This is when the prayers were heading upwards for a safe landing in Cold Bay. Obviously, it wasn't a safe ordeal because our pilot had to circle a number of times to wait for the fog to lighten up. I don't think that it did clear up-he just had to make a judgment call and it happened to be a good call. I plan to make a post on my blog for the case for a road from King Cove to Cold Bay. I will refrain from any comments at this moment and will post after I get my whole trip on my blog.

This is what we were heading into-not the best visibility and pretty scary for passengers.

(6) more again

Here is a road out in the middle of nowhere, where I thought that we could possibly land if the fog didn't clear up to make it to Cold Bay to land. The major problem with having to land out there was the fear of a grizzly bear coming upon us and having a meal of us. This area is infested with brown grizzly bears . It is also home to millions of birds. Hunters from all over the world come here to hunt for bears and ducks.

Looking more dismal all the time! (any lower and I think we would of been swimming)

(5) Arrival in Cold Bay

Not a good looking place to land.YEAH!! We finally see the runway and hope of landing safely!

I'm a total believer in the power of prayer and I can say that I did a fair amount of praying during this long drawn out flight. Prayer is a wonderful thing. I could feel the presence of God and had total peace in whatever might happen. My greatest fear was that we would have to land out in the middle of nowhere and have bears find us. (and you can only imagine what could happen then) I don't know about you, but I don't want a repeat of this sort of flight again.

(4) Salmon berries GALORE!!

Here is a close up of a salmonberry-it makes the most tastiest jelly you will ever taste.Two eager berry pickers!! We found a wonderful patch of berries right in town and had to get out to pick them before anyone else got the chance!! I think we have a good chance of getting a contract to model boots!!

Shirlee couldn't wait to fill her pitcher full.

I just didn't care about style when it came to getting a load of berries!

Shirlee struck it rich!!