Dutch Harbor, though we have a post office for Dutch Harbor, is not a separate city but a harbor.  The map below shows you more detail.

In the above picture number 4 is where downtown Unalaska is located. On the Island of Amaknak, number 2 is where I live and number 3 is where the Grand Aleutian Hotel is located. Number 1 is bunker hill, where the bunker is located and the shot below was taken.

This picture shows the UniSea complex on Amaknak Island.

So I hope that gives you an understanding of where I live. Now how I got here. I went to visit a friend in Seattle and was looking though the paper and saw an ad for a job with UniSea as a seafood processor. I wasn't happy with my life in Los Angeles and had always wanted to go to Alaska so I applied for the job and here I am. Working as a seafood processor was a very new experience for me. I started out working in Cod, grading Cod roe. Roe is the fish eggs. Cod have very large egg sacs. I found them very pretty, colorful. (Maybe next season I will be able to get some pictures. It is hard to take a camera to work, especially when you are working because it is so wet everywhere.) Next I worked in Crab. We were processing opilio (snow) crab. I worked in all areas, butchering, gilling, packing, and case-up. Toward the end of the season, they found out about my computer skills and brought me in the production office. I worked in the office until I was laid off in late June. I was happy to return home as I had been away for almost 6 months. It was nice to see all my family and friends again. But now I am back. I am happy to be back in the cooler weather.

Well that is about it. You can go to my pictures from here or return to the home page.