Tonight, I continue my travelogue of Alaska with Ketchikan (August 1st). Ketchikan was my favorite town in Alaska! If you could imagine it without the cruise ships and 10,000 people from the ships, you would think you were back in the 1800's. It's even got wooden streets!! We docked about 5:30 AM. I had gotten up at 4:30 or so because I was so excited. It was so beautiful and so quiet coming into port. Shops were starting to open already because we weren't the first ship to dock!
We started out with jackets, but shed them very early! This is Milt and me and the next picture is Pat with Dave. Suzy, Greg, Mary, and Steve were already shopping!
I had to take a picture of this trolley because it said Vanness Street - where we live!
We didn't go on this trolley though! Our tour guide here was Alan, who is a Tlingit Indian. He was absolutely wonderful! He found us eagles, black bears, salmon, salmon berries, an eagle's nest, and entertained us with wonderful stories for over 2 hours!!
This is a juvenile bald eagle who got a little nervous with all of these people around him...plus, he might have seen Mr. Black Bear coming around the bend in the stream!!
I guess he was hungry because the stream was chock full of salmon! It was really fun watching him!!
We only got part of a day in Ketchikan. We had to be back on the ship by 1:30 to sail for Juneau. Ketchikan has a population of about 8,000 but swelled to 18,000 with 5 ships in the harbor! Great place to shop for bargains, too. We did learn though that the cruise lines own a lot of the shops in the 3 towns we stopped in. We always looked for signs that said locally owned!
More later...
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