"Zachar Bay is a great place to spend a week. The scenery is magnificent. The Eaton family and Dawn and Jim Hahn make sure your stay is outstanding." - Don Hunter, Pennsylvania

Marty Eaton fell in love with Kodiak Island during his first visit in 1957, before Alaska was even a state and just a territory.

Linda & Marty Eaton

Marty spent the winter seasons at Northern Arizona University (formerly Arizona State College) in Flagstaff, Arizona studying Biology. While attending the University, he met his future wife, Linda, and convinced her to move to Alaska with him after college. After graduation, they packed up their pickup truck and drove the Alaska Highway in the spring of 1964 – just a few months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Kodiak and southern Alaska.

Marty secured a job working for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game as a fisheries biologist – regulating and enforcing the commercial fishing industry in salmon, halibut, crab, shrimp and much more over a 20 year period. He also took a break from the Department in the early 1970’s to pursue a commercial Dugeness and King Crab fishing venture for three years. Although he never became a “highliner,” Marty was very successful with fishing, but desired the stability of working for the state of Alaska.