Green Island Cabin

My favorite cabin in all of Alaska, although I haven't been to many. I look forward to this trip every year. It's a jaunt out there, so I always hope the weather is good. I was lucky this year.

My favorite cabin in all of Alaska, although I haven't been to many. I look forward to this trip every year. It's a jaunt out there, so I always hope the weather is good. I was lucky this year.

Exceptional experience. Makes Alaska living easy.

Exceptional experience. Makes Alaska living easy.

Cabin is very nice, and the location is outstanding! There are deer in the area, there are no black bear on the island. Harbor is excellent for boats, access is easy, although I would be extra careful at low tide. My ATT phone had 2 bars. There is a little propane stove to heat water and food. The oil furnace works really good, but signs are posted saying to only using heating oil, no kerosene, etc. I have made a short video about our last trip to Green Island, showing off the cabin here:
https://youtu.be/GaN8BuEzbJo

Cabin is very nice, and the location is outstanding! There are deer in the area, there are no black bear on the island. Harbor is excellent for boats, access is easy, although I would be extra careful at low tide. My ATT phone had 2 bars. There is a little propane stove to heat water and food. The oil furnace works really good, but signs are posted saying to only using heating oil, no kerosene, etc. I have made a short video about our last trip to Green Island, showing off the cabin here:
https://youtu.be/GaN8BuEzbJo

Previous guests had left so much stuff behind that the shelves were mostly full. We hauled a full contractor bag away with us.
Please don't leave anything behind besides maybe fuel and water.

Previous guests had left so much stuff behind that the shelves were mostly full. We hauled a full contractor bag away with us.
Please don't leave anything behind besides maybe fuel and water.

Cabin and deck are nice and comfortable. You can enjoy a great view of the sound or set on the beach, weather permitting, in front of the cabin.
However, the toilet needs to be emptied and taken care of as it is getting to the point that the pile will soon reach the seat.
I suggest that you bring one of the small, inexpensive battery powered fuel transfer pumps to transfer the kerosene from your container into the cabin kerosene holding tank as the fill port for the tank is at about eye level above the deck for the average height person. (My nephew splashed kerosene into his eye because of the height of the fill spout). It wasn't serious as we were able to flush it out of his eye with water, However, it could have easily been worse and could have splashed onto his clothing as well. (I have since purchased on of the small transfer pumps at my local hardware store for about $40.00.)

Aside from these issues it is a very pleasant and functional cabin.

We come into the cove at low tide using the GPS for marked rock avoidance and had two people on the bow for visual observance. After that we followed the "tracks" on the GPS in and out. The low tide we come in on was a +0.7, the shallowest water we encountered was approximately eight freet so at minus tides one would obviously encounter shallower water.

All in all a good time and good experience. It was 2½ hours from Whitter to the island running at about 26 mph. I recommend that you consider extra fuel as we had to run back to Whittier to get more fuel, and had to limit our site seeing excursions,

Cabin and deck are nice and comfortable. You can enjoy a great view of the sound or set on the beach, weather permitting, in front of the cabin.
However, the toilet needs to be emptied and taken care of as it is getting to the point that the pile will soon reach the seat.
I suggest that you bring one of the small, inexpensive battery powered fuel transfer pumps to transfer the kerosene from your container into the cabin kerosene holding tank as the fill port for the tank is at about eye level above the deck for the average height person. (My nephew splashed kerosene into his eye because of the height of the fill spout). It wasn't serious as we were able to flush it out of his eye with water, However, it could have easily been worse and could have splashed onto his clothing as well. (I have since purchased on of the small transfer pumps at my local hardware store for about $40.00.)

Aside from these issues it is a very pleasant and functional cabin.

We come into the cove at low tide using the GPS for marked rock avoidance and had two people on the bow for visual observance. After that we followed the "tracks" on the GPS in and out. The low tide we come in on was a +0.7, the shallowest water we encountered was approximately eight freet so at minus tides one would obviously encounter shallower water.

All in all a good time and good experience. It was 2½ hours from Whitter to the island running at about 26 mph. I recommend that you consider extra fuel as we had to run back to Whittier to get more fuel, and had to limit our site seeing excursions,