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    Where the taxi dropped us off
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    Dutch Harbor, Alaska

    June 30, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 8 °C

    After five days at sea we arrived at our first port in Alaska, Dutch Harbor. It’s our first North American port since sailing out of San Francisco on January 15!

    Dutch Harbor is the port; the town is Unalaska with about 5,000 residents. It’s a small place but the biggest fishing port in the U.S. If you’ve ever watched the television show Deadliest Catch, you’ve likely seen Dutch Harbor and Unalaska.

    There are no excursions needed here. There’s a museum, a few stores, a hotel and a few restaurants. We were tendered and set out mid morning on a tender boat to check out the town. It was rainy and cold, about 11 degrees, so we bundled up.

    When we reached the pier there were three taxi vans there offering to take us into town a mile and a bit away. We hopped in and we were dropped off at the parking lot of the Alaska Ship Supply store and wandered around town to the museum, the Safeway store and lunch at the Norvegian Rat Saloon where we met up with Geraldine and Thomas and then walked back to the tender together. Even in the rain, it was lovely to walk where lupins grow wild along the roadside.    Read more