These are called grizzly bears down South (the lower 48). In Alaska they are just brown bears, the only kind of bear on Baranov Island where Sitka is located. Everything eats salmon and competition is a way of life. (by Janet Berlin, www.ishootlife.com)
A swan in (of course) Swan Lake, Sitka.
Russian Bishops’ House is one of the four surviving examples of Russian colonial architecture in North America. Imperial Russia was the dominant power in the North Pacific for over 125 years. Sitka (known as New Archangel at the time) was the Russian colonial capital. The Bishop’s House was completed in 1842 and was the center of Russian Orthodox church authority in a diocese that stretched from California to Siberian Kamchatka.
Thompson Harbor, Sitka.
Mt. Verstovia (on the left) from Lincoln Street, Sitka.
A troller coming into Sealing Harbor.
St. Michael’s Cathedral, Sikt.
“The Prospector” bronze statue in front of the Sitka Pioneer Home.
Russian and British anchors recovered from the floor of Sitka Harbor.
Totem Square with Sitka Pioneer Home in background. The top figure on this pole is Alexandr Baranov, originally carved with his privates showing (now covered with a small “modesty” plank) designed to “shame” him for actions unacceptable to the Tlingit.
