Setting
The lodge is perched almost directly on the shore of Larsen Bay. Look outside any picture window or dine on the balcony and you will be treated to a view of a dramatic location. Two thousand feet mountains rise in the background and drop right in the water. A beach is cast right outside your front door with broken rocks and scoured pebbles that absolutely will beckon you to comb it. Aside from the lodge guests, it is shared only by what nature invites to it or casts upon it. The ravens and crows are there, along with the eagles, and you can count on seeing them almost every day. Otters swim right in the bay and the bears can be seen right down the road. About the only thing that’s missing is the white puff of the clouds, and even then some of them will ring their way down to the shore of where you will temporarily reside.
If that’s not enough, ask Dean to take you for a short ride. If it’s history you seek there’s a century of it left in full view. You will see it the churches and the homesteads left abandoned, or in the grave yards left unattended. Drop down to the cannery and you will witness it in the abandoned buildings left behind. Walk the shores and investigate the debris cast up from a hundred years worth of storms. From broken boats to strangled cables, and from china shards to colored glass, all of it is worth the investigation and awaits your discovery.
The cannery docks will beckon you to take a stroll. There’s even an old time mercantile in support of an industry that few get to see. You are in bear country and they are around. Drive by Humpy Creek on an incoming tide when the pink salmon are in and you will know what I mean. Visit the burning embers at the public dump and look beyond the fences; Dean will show you the way. I know of no private lodge anywhere in Alaska that ever arranged for outside guests to be welcomed inside a First Native home, yet this was offered to me and a visiting family when I was there. Truly, the setting and opportunity of this lodge is what makes it “beyond legend”.
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This First Nation Alutiiq boy finds fun in swimming in the bay right outside your door. This native population will surround you throughout your stay. |
Off with your shoes! Kodiak Legends Lodge will furnish you with this authentic soft footwear for your use indoors. |
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The cannery and mercantile are intriguing places to take a stroll. |
A hundred years’ worth of winter storms lie in mute testament of what you might come upon in some waterfront locations. |
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