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| Yo! Bear! |
Ketchikan awaits! I expect a small town, a creek with jumping salmon, a boardwalk around the creek and historic buildings. It's all there...but to get to Creek Street, I have to forge past streets of tourist stores, including one of the biggest: Ketchikan Mining Co. I think: mining for tourist dollars! Oh the t-shirts, oh the hats, oh the jewelry counters and the hawkers on the sidewalk bidding to to "step this way." Maybe there is some resemblence here to the actual mining days in Ketchikan?
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| My new best friend.... |
Then it's back to Ketchikan, to find our way to Creek Street. No salmon jumping today. Lots of tourists as there are three cruise ships in port. We spend a little time walking the boardwalk and watching the Harbor seals cruise the creek for lunch.
Judging by the size of these seals...they must have a good strategy. It appears it idea is to swim upstream toward the little waterfalls. Then, quickly flip over on your back, nose in the air, but eyes underwater and watching for....fish! Then just stay in place with flippers flipping and wait for the food to come to you!
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| Here fishy, fishy..... |
The Potlatch Totem Park is very well done as far as construction of authentic First Nation Peoples dwellings and totems. We take our time strolling ....cameras clicking.
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| Outside the Red Dog Saloon.... |
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| Creek Street in 2012 |
Goodbye Akaska! Hello Pacific Ocean!
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