• leaving Kamchatka
  • Russian fishing trawler on Pacific side
  • small Russian freighter headed south
  • Shumshu Island, September 26, 2006
  • Shumshu Island
  • Shumshu Island
  • a slow sail through the narrow strait
  • our first look at Atlasova Island
  • Vulkan Alaid volcano is the tallest and northernmost volcano in the Kuril Islands
  • Alaid Volcano
  • lunch before we go ashore
  • a rare perfect day to enjoy the entire mountain
  • Mike at Atlasova
  • Sharon at Atlasova
  • Atlasova is almost perfectly round, the black point toward the ship is part of the 1981 eruption
  • our proposed landing beach and the first look at the abandoned  women's prison
  • one cannot imagine the life these prisoners must have endured
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  • fish drying racks at the old women's prison
  • grass blowing in the black sand beach makes real crop circles
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