Our previous post is sketchy, as sketchy as the strength of the internet signal we can find. Sorry about no labels on the pictures.
The first one in Ketchikan speaks for itself. Then there's a 'pillar', which is one 230-foot rock on a small island in the middle of a canal. We spent a night in a canyon called Punchbowl Cove, which is shaped like a huge bowl of sheer cliffs all around. at the water's edge, the reflections look like horizontal totem poles.
When we left Ketchikan on Sunday, June 15, we took a side trip around the Behm Canal into some fantastic wilderness passages; we got our first whale show, which was pretty exciting. We stopped the boat and turned up some music on the back deck and one killer whale came within 20 feet of our stern to check us out, but he did a big dive and disappeared. maybe he doesn't appreciate Norah Jones.
Our next town to visit was Wrangell; very rustic typical Alaskan fishing town. We took a tour boat into a remote glacial inlet, and had a wonderful afternoon taking dozens of pictures of icebergs and 'bergy bits', as they're called. This inlet is a haven for seals with their babies; they know that the whales and other predators cannot get into the iceberg-laden inlet, and we saw many dozens of mother seals with their cubs sunning themselves on the many bergs. It was a memorable trip, well worth it.
We got to Petersburg via a 20-mile long very narrow channel that is a tricky bit of navigating around 54 marker buoys, that looks much like a waterskier's slalom course. Petersburg is a norwegian town reminiscent of Poulsbo, Washington.
next stop Juneau.
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