Where is this?

You are getting warmer!
The Holgate is just one bit of a much bigger ice network...and Seward is on the other side of it (the unprotected from brown bears side)! I'm glad you picked up on the salt herring thing...

 

Last guess: Halibut Cove.

 

BRAVO!
The restaurant is the Saltry.
The boat that takes people there is the Danny J
The family that owns it is the Tillion Family.
Clem Tillion got Federal and State parks put all the way around his island, Ismalof, and Halibut Cove when he was a legislator.
A combination of population and geography, including Harding Ice Field and the Kenai Mountains dissuades the brown bears.
The lack of brown bears limits the possibilities to Halibut Cove, Seldovia, Port Graham, and English Bay. When there were Salteries, the natives of Port Graham and English Bay (NanWalek, I guess, now - they changed the name) were out at Port Chatham around the corner. Far enough into the cold water zone that abalone don't reproduce (oysters either, but we import spat and grow the highest value oysters I know. High value because of perceived clean water). Likewise, purple urchins.
I thought it would be easy - the place is eighteen kilometers from where I sit now. Sorry to be a pain in the can.

 

That was a great puzzle. I am going to bed now, but perhaps one of our friends would like to post one now? Alaska is a magnificent large place with a diversity of conditions geographically. Florida also has black bear, but they are not as big. Goodnight.

 

Yes, it was easy had we looked for Homer.
Still too much alcohol mist in our minds, perhaps....?

All the best.

P.S. What is the tide range over there?
P.P.S. I like your "eating place"

 

As Hoyt is just awakening and he opened the opportunity, I cannot resist the temptation.

Any guess about where this magnificent Rock is? Northern hemisphere.
(And no, I have not been there and most probably will never be)

Cheers.

 

7.9 meters, Guillermo.

 

Just off the coast of Rio de Janiero?
J

 

Wow, Marc! That's the double we have here!

I&S,
I said Northern hemisphere....

A fourth clue:
The rock is close (+/- 15 km) to the three-peaked volcano in the image
Cheers.

 

Sorry

I Dont always read properly

Been a failing of mine since schooldays. Ill just go and sit in the corner and shut up.........

J

 

Are we in the Kuril archipelago? is the volcano Sarychev peak?

the rock looks like columnular basalt.

 

That was a great puzzle, Mark - lots of aspects to it - lovely. I was too mowed out with visitors to join in properly.

I dated a fisherwoman from Juneau a long time ago, and she joked about the artist community there.

You've also reminded me of sleeping out on the beach in Oregon, and being wakened by Abalone divers in the early hours.

And you've brought to mind Barry Lopez's excellent book, Arctic Dreams. Wonderful accounts of many species, and their relationship with man, and the geography, history and exploration of the region.

 

I had to check, it's not Rockall..

 

Ah, Rockall!




And Stack An Armin, in the St. Kilda archepelago:




and some columnular basalt on Staffa:



but that's all procrastination, and not getting us any nearer Guillermo's puzzle...

 

Kuril archipelago it is, congratulations! But volcano is not the Sarychev.
Only an small further effort and you're there....

Cheers.