Caton Island Adventure

The next five blogs are all about my adventure this June, 2012 on Caton Island in the Aleutians. I served as the EMT 3, RN for a group of roughly 30 people (counting both boat crews). While nothing medically exciting happened (thankfully), it was an interesting time and I met some great people. Send me an email at EpiHi89@gmail.com if you have any questions, comments or corrections. Thanks to many of my co-workers for sharing pictures!

634 miles Southwest of Anchorage is Cold Bay
- most took a direct flight.

Not me - I flew from Anchorage to King Salmon, changed planes and flew to Port Moller, then on a supercub to Nelson Lagoon and finally on to Cold Bay. Never a dull moment...

Port Moller is a cold storage and seafood processing plant - it reminded me a bit of Pelican and some of Larsen Bay.

I was surprised at how flat it was - until you get to the volcanoes

Thankfully they invited me down for "mug up" and didn't leave me sitting on the runway...

Once in Cold Bay it was a 50 mile boat ride to Caton. The day we went out (11 of us) it was flat calm and beautiful.

The boat on the beach shows this area isn't always so friendly

The Sam B and the tug with all of our supplies

Our home for the next month. Caton has had a variety of residents including Aleut's, a cattle ranching operation, an air navigation station ran by the Navy and lots of birds.

Looking to beach the barge

The next day. The weather wasn't very pleasant but they were able to unload the barge and start building tents.

Platform for the kitchen

I think this picture speaks for itself... :)

The finished camp

Second try on the satellite...

Loading everything back up again

Back in Cold Bay - no, it didn't work

Our future home?

WWII church