And it was another beautiful day in Alaska, and this time it was really a beautiful day. We arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska, our 3rd port of call, and the last in Alaska. Now they get so much rain in Ketchikan, that they don’t bother measuring it in inches, no they use feet to measure the amount of rain that they get. The locals say they get roughly 10 days in summer/ spring of nice sunny weather, and today was one of those days.
Today’s shore excursion was the Misty Fjords and Wilderness explorer, which was a high speed boat that took us into the Misty Fjords. Now to be honest when this tour first started, i was very disappointed, as we had seen so many beautiful sights on this holiday, and then for the first odd hour, it was just tree after tree after tree, and I was starting to think that we had been conned a little bit. And then it happened… we arrived in the Misty Fjords and it was again a magnificent sight, it was beautiful! The water was so still it mirrored the scenery, so many beautiful waterfalls and rock cliffs. Misty Fjords is full of canals, but none of them are man made. They where all created many hundreds of years ago by glaciers that have since retreated. It truly shows how powerful these glaciers where, just carving away at the walls and creating these canals, amazing!
It was a very short stop in Ketchikan today, only around 5 hours. The town has a very strong Red Indian tribal background, with many clans of Indian tribes, including the bear and beaver that used to live (and still have a presence) in Ketchikan. Due to there presence in Ketchikan, there are many totem poles around in the area, and they really are beautiful. There are also markings (stained not painting) on the walls of some of the islands of the tribes, which was how they marked there land. Ketchikan survives on tourism of the cruise ships, they have no roads into the town, the only access is via sea or plane. The shops only get stocked up once a month, and most houses are powered by generator. Apparently Alaskan girls are in demand, as they are no sissys! Life in Alaska is beautiful, but I do not imagine it to be an easy life in some of these small towns, where basics that we become accustomed to, are not around, also keeping in mind they have 30 days of almost no light (maybe 2 hours of sunlight) in winter, and 30 days of daylight in summer.
So tomorrow we will be arriving in Victoria, British Columbia Canada, our 4th port of call, and final stop for the cruise, its also the last cruise day, and then we begin the long trek home. Watching the news on CNN it seems that the Volcano might be causing problems again, lets hope I don’t get stuck again!
Update tomorrow after Victoria, bye for now 
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