When we caught the shuttle from our hotel to go downtown, our shuttle driver told us some very interesting things. When he was young boy the only way in and out of Ketchikan was on a plane that took off of land and landed on water. The water would spray inside the open door, and he would yell, "Mama were going to die!" His mom would get mad at him and tell him not to do it, but he told her he did it just to make people scared.
Ketchikan was a logging and fishing town when our driver was a young boy. Many of the buildings were built out over the water. When the tide was low, he would go underneath the bars and pick up all of the money that the men dropped while they were in the bars. He said he could get $20 easily in the day.
We went to a fish ladder on Creek Street and saw the salmon going up a waterfall it was very interesting and they were about 2 feet long.
We went to the totem heritage Center, which is a museum that was informative about the building of totem poles and the native people who built them.
We went to a sweater shop and it seems like most of the people have the same opinion about Petersburg. She said that when you get off the boat you must have a square head, like the Norwegians
We shopped around downtown and went through a very pretty park and into a bookstore where Garth bought a book for our 9 1/2 hour ferry ride to Petersburg.
On a Vietnam war memorial I read "for your tomorrow we gave our today." I thought that was applicable for many situations.
We navigated the Wrangell Narrows on our way to Petersburg. When the expression is made, "All hands on deck!" I now understand the meaning. It was very narrow and the ferry made its progress slowly through the markers. There were some very attentive passengers, the Smiths included.
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