EZRA MILLSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY

M/V Tustumena

The view of Kachemak Bay from the Homer Spit.
   
A floatplane docked at sunset.
   
Genevieve Still, a native Aleut, rides the M/V Tustumena from Homer to Kodiak. She travels on the ferry four times per year, and calls it "her boat."
     
  
The M/V Tustumena in port, preparing to depart for the Aleutians.
   
A stormy day at sea on board the M/V Tustumena near Kodiak Island.
  
Two year-old Heidi Bedingfield, from Kodiak, walks near the city's rainy harbor.
     
  
A hot bowl of borscht welcomes rain-soaked patrons of the Russian-owned Monk's Rock Coffee House and Bookstore.
   
  
A young girl from Chignik peers out the door of the Donut Hole bakery, the closest thing the town has to a restaurant.
     
  
Antlers frame the landscape of Cold Bay. The town has an estimated population of 60 year-round residents.
   
The M/V Tustumena docked in Sand Point. Most of the town's 952 inhabitants are of Aleut descent, mainly from the Qagan Tayagungin tribe, and support themselves by fishing and fish processing.
   
Shane Watson cleans the day's catch of halibut on the dock in front of the M/V Tustumena.
     
  
Cleaned halibut on the dock in front of the M/V Tustumena.
   
  
Cadet Chris Buckley plots a course across Ikatan Bay from Cold Bay to False Pass, from the bridge of the M/V Tustumena.
     
  
A crewman steers the M/V Tustumena through the Isanotski Straight as it leaves False Pass.
   
The view from the M/V Tustumena as it passes through Unalaska Bay into the port at Dutch Harbor.