Ketchikan, Alaska, USA

We docked early in the morning at Ketchikan. We didn’t have any excursions booked, so we went ashore and booked a tour of the town. The first stop on the tour was a river full of salmon. It is the beginning of the salmon run season so there were hundreds of salmon swimming upstream in the river. We stopped again at a beautiful waterfall and we were able to briefly walk through the forest. It looked like a fairy forest, with bright green moss growing across all the surfaces. Next, we stopped at the beach, to look for seals and eagles. We saw lots of adult and juvenile bald eagles but didn’t see any seals. Our last stop was at the National park to look for bears. Unfortunately there were none so we headed back to town.

After the tour, we walked around the old town. Which is a historical area built on stilts above the river. We walked around and looked at the shops for a bit before getting back in board. As the ship was leaving the port, we spotted a seal while sitting at the bof!Read more