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Reisende North Pacific Passage
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- 16. aug. 2019, 11:30
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Høyde: 13 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Creek Street Historic District 55.342299, -131.64148655°20’32” N 131°38’29” W
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Fish Creek, Ketchikan - Salmon Ladder
16. august 2019, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
The salmon ladder has been constructed to provide an alternative route upriver for the salmon to spawn. They arrive at this point exhausted and languish in the eddies gaining strength and muscle tissue to make the last dash upriver.Les mer
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Beth Vogelzang Rocky & Bullwinkle Tour
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- 26. aug. 2017, 12:02
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Høyde: 16 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Ketchikan Harbor 55.34222, -131.646155°20’32” N 131°38’46” W
Dag 25
Ketchikan, United States
26. august 2017, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Just arriving in Ketchikan, Alaska - touted as the Salmon Capital of the World. As we are docking, I thought I'd share a few pics. We are off to what I expect to be a very kitsch Lumberjack show... Haha. We purchased tickets in Oz online well before the trip, at about 25% of what they are charging on the ship... My tour guide thinks of everything!!!

Will report back later!

The Lumberjack Show was a little twee, but showcased the skills required for timber orders. It was fun and a good hour long show.

Ketchikan is an interesting town, with a strong river in the centre of town, with a salmon ladder, complete with salmon swimming upstream. The "old" part of town showcases the history, being where the loggers andfisherman spent their free time and hard earned dollars, as evidenced by the signs at Dolly's house.Ketchikan gets 16 feet of rain (yes, you read that right!). We were lucky today, to have only an overcast, but dry day, maximum temperature 15 degrees.
Today we had a very nice long chat with our lovely youngest daughter over coffee in a Cafe. We miss the family very much, so it made us a little homesick.

Tomorrow we spend at sea, sailing the Inside Passage. We will be looking for some big marine life (hopefully a whale or two will come play), before docking in Vancouver on Monday, and more adventures in Canada!Les mer
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Reisende North Pacific Passage
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- 16. aug. 2019, 07:00
- ☁️ 15 °C
- Høyde: 29 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Creek Street Historic District 55.343625, -131.64346255°20’37” N 131°38’36” W
Dag 9
Ketchikan - Early Morning Arrival
16. august 2019, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
An early morning arrival sailing through the Tongass Narrows to the Salmon capitol of Alaska. This town is very seasonal with the main industries of fishing and tourism. There are big canneries here for the salmon.
Ketchikan is on a rocky island and hosts several cruise ships each day. Today we are berthed at a sea mooring and tender into the dock.Les mer
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Reisende The Alaskan Cruise
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- 19. aug. 2018
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Høyde: 16 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Ketchikan Harbor 55.342222, -131.64611155°20’32” N 131°38’46” W
Dag 8
Ketchikan, Alaska
19. august 2018, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Today we visited our first port of call on our cruise - the town of Ketchikan. Our boat arrived at about 7.00am, although we went to the buffet breakfast before disembarking. Ketchikan is not a very big town and we didn't have any specific plans, so we went out to explore on our own.

The weather was surprisingly fine, and a very pleasant day. Finding wifi was impossible though - everywhere requires a password (obviously to stop tourists from using it for free!), so we decided to finally buy a SIM card.

We walked along the famous Creek Road with its colourful buildings, but they were generally either a shop, a restaurant, or a former brothel. One amazing sight was a nearby river which seemed to be bursting with salmon. We'd never seen so many fish congregate in one area before.

We were pretty interested in the local cannabis shop, which is clearly a new thing for us. It was very interesting - we really didn't know anything about it, and seeing a lot of their products and the wide range available was something new. For me personally, learning about the different medicinal reasons too was an eye opener.

Around the middle of the day, we went back to the cruise ship and had lunch with Stephen and Woody before heading up to the sun deck for our departure from Ketchikan. We ended up enjoying the jacuzzi with beers in the adults pool section before going to dinner.

One of the highlights was seeing some humpback whales on the side of the boat. We tried to see them from the dining room after dinner, but it made more sense to get the better view from the top deck. As you can imagine, this was very popular with everyone, and we were very lucky to see a whole school of them very close to the boat,

Later in the evening, we went to the Martini Bar with the friends we have made so far on the cruise. We have been very fortunate to meet some great people, meaning the cruise has really gone very well so far.Les mer
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Reisende North Pacific Passage
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- 16. aug. 2019, 14:00
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Høyde: 16 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Ketchikan Harbor 55.342222, -131.64611155°20’32” N 131°38’46” W
Dag 9
Cliff Tunnel, Ketchikan
16. august 2019, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
The original application to build this tunnel through the cliff failed. During WW2, funding was reapplied for - to build a bomb shelter - and it was granted. The cliff hangs above the water. a tunnel was drilled for vehicles, but water still flows beneath the rock.Les mer
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Reisende North Pacific Passage
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- 16. aug. 2019, 09:20
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Høyde: 22 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Gateway Borough Mud Bay Totem Bight State Historical Park 55.420116, -131.77253855°25’12” N 131°46’21” W
Dag 9
Potlach Park, Ketchikan
16. august 2019, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We travel out along the shoreline to the Haida tribal land called Potlach Park. Potlach is the first nations term for party - a place of ceremonies and festivities. Here we see community buildings of the traditional Haida tribe, their totems amongst the cool temperate rainforest.Les mer
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Reisende Alaska 2018
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- 25. jul. 2018, 22:07
- 🌙 19 °C
- Høyde: Sjønivå
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Thomas Basin 55.338756, -131.64428655°20’20” N 131°38’39” W
Dag 7
Ketchikan
25. juli 2018, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Landgang in Ketchikan, der Lachshauptstadt der Welt. Zusammen mit 10 anderen Wagemutigen ging es mit Jeeps über Stock und Stein durch den Tongass Wald, nach Amazonas der grösste Regenwald der Erde. Endstation war ein See, den wir per Ruderboot überquert hatten, danach kurze Wanderung im Wald.Les mer
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Reisende North Pacific Passage
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- 16. aug. 2019, 08:30
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Høyde: Sjønivå
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Thomas Basin 55.340013, -131.64105955°20’24” N 131°38’28” W
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Ketchikan - town built over the water
16. august 2019, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
The shoreline of Ketchikan is a rocky cliff with little land at sea level. It has the second highest tidal change in the world (up to 20 feet). The tide is out when we sail in leaving the pilings that hold up the roads and buildings exposed. Almost all of the dock area and Main Street are elevated over the water.
It's so steep that timber roads are erected along the cliffs and are joined by staircases which are also designated as roads or avenues. It's literally, a cliff side town.Les mer
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Reisende Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- 29. jul. 2019, 09:00
- ☁️ 12 °C
- Høyde: 17 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Gateway Borough Mountain Point 55.29434, -131.5483155°17’40” N 131°32’54” W
Dag 14
Snorkelling in Alaska
29. juli 2019, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Ketchikan, a small port town of 12,000 people, can sometimes double in population with up to seven cruise ships in port in a day. On disembarking we caught a glimpse of the Alutian Ballard, a Deadliest Catch ship (but actually in port as an excursion for passengers). We however had to be on the dockside before 7am to get a bus to our snorkelling site.

Driving around 15 minutes south of Ketchikan to Mountain Point, we were kitted up in 7mm wet suits, booties, hoods, gloves and masks before venturing into the Alaskan Pacific Ocean - really! These guys really know what they are doing however and within minutes of being in the water we were toasty warm. They guided us around the bay, talking about and showing us the marine life - seastars, urchins, cucumbers and crabs. It was a bit surreal swimming amongst so many jellyfish but we were assured we were safe unless it was the red-orange Lion's Mane jellyfish...we saw three of them! Before we headed back to change we had an "Alaskan sauna" - a tub full of very warm water tipped down our wetsuits! On the way back, (and indeed whilst we were in the water) we saw SO many bald eagles, which was hugely exciting!

Back in the town proper, we wander the historic centre and Creek Street looking at the mass of salmon swimming upstream. The damp drizzly day coupled with the floods of tourists and shops touting tat to them made for a somewhat false experience though. So we retired for a beer and some Alaskan salmon before getting back on the boat to journey to the state capital of Juneau.Les mer
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Reisende Alaska & the Yukon
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- 1. sep. 2017, 16:00
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Høyde: 15 m
- Forente stater Alaska Ketchikan Gateway Borough Mud Bay Totem Bight 55.421712, -131.77248155°25’18” N 131°46’21” W
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Totem Bight, Ketchikan, AK
1. september 2017, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Totem Bight is a state historical site in Ketchikan. This site held sacred by the natives has been salvaged and reconstructed. The site has several totem poles and a clan house. Our guide tells the story of each of the poles from the Tlingit and Haida tribes who lived in the area. Each totem pole reflects the native myths and legends. The symbols are the raven, the eagle, the beaver, the bear and wolf, and the killer whale.

The totem poles were hand carved with native implements like the adze. Paint was made from charcoal, copper deposits, iron deposits and mixed with saliva and fish roe.

It's a beautiful, quiet setting right on the banks of the Inland Passage just a few minutes from downtown.Les mer
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