The shoreline of southeast Alaska is dotted with numerous small inlet and bays just waiting to be explored. Pond Island is in Kelp Bay along the northern shore of Baranof Island in Chatham Strait. The island is covered with a very dense stand of old growth temperate rainforest. In addition to some enormous specimens of sitka spruce and western hemlock, the island also contains abundant yellow cedar. The forest understory is thick with blueberries and huckleberries all ripe and waiting for eating. In the thick carpet of moss on the forest floor lives the boreal toad; the only toad species in Alaska. The boreal toad dines exclusively on insects, making him one of the most prodigious insect eaters in Southeast. Poisonous glands on the back of his neck make him unpalatable to most large predators. In addition to the boreal toad, the island is home to bald eagles, brown bears and Sitka black-tailed deer.