Over the weekend Nora and I went for a hike with Uncle Dicky and the dogs. It was an awful, dreary day so we went for an off trail beach and woods hike. We first checked on an old archaeological village site that I have never had the chance to check out. I have photos of the site from shortly after the earthquake in 1964 when the land sank 5 feet and the whole site was eroding and falling into the sea. A thick shell midden. Now the site has rebounded a few feet out of the sea and is totally stable. There is now 50 feet of grass between the site and the active beach.
Don Clark had told me that there was a 'fake' City of Kodiak in the area during WWII. They had lights set up in the trees here. So if Japanese bombers came by they could turn on the lights and fool them into bombing the wrong spot (Kodiak would be blacked out). So we also looked for wires and lights in the trees - evidence for the old fakery. But we found nothing.
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