Day 9 of our trip
Sailing today
Slept well last night. Up around 7:30AM, we are docked in Ketchikan. It is heavy clouds, cold wind, but not raining. We stay on board the 4-hour layover for staff change. We have been in Ketchikan many times but with the heavy traffic with the docked cruise ships we’re not interested. We don’t need supplies or want to go to a restaurant.
We called Dean for his 9th
birthday today and were able to have some face time. He shared all his BD gifts, his new art and
crafting. Quinn runs by showing us her
missing 2 lower teeth. We are excited to
see the family. We will have a delayed
BD celebration when we arrive.
The shower
in the cabin is full force with lots of hot water. The sink has a push handle that gives short
bursts of water. Have been drinking the
water and it’s pretty good. We are on
nautical miles now but requires a calculation to road miles.
We take our chairs onto our usual side deck, the water calms down, wind drops and some sun makes it more pleasant. Not many use this deck as there are no chairs provided but is one designated area for smokers who come and go. The scenery is lovely with misty clouds touching huge forests of low mountain treetops; why it is a rainforest area. We see 5 small pods of Dall’s porpoises and many eagles.
Landed in Wrangell, overcast, no rain. The Stikine River muddy waters meet the ocean
blue. The docking is not simple for the
ferry, lots of side thrusters. The little gift shop in view is closed. This stop is only 20 minutes and we have
visited the shop in the past. He is
hardcore trapper who goes to a remote cabin in the St. Elias mountains that
rind Wrangell and spends the winter trapping.
A smaller cruise ship is in port but leaves before us. Wrangell still the quiet small town but now
experiencing landslides too frequently.
Early dinner in ‘fancy’ restaurant; earlier
gets the center tables in front of the big windows. Food was good as was service. Met up with Tim from Oregon; he and wife Maria
on their way to Fairbanks to visit his mother. Tim was raised in Nenana. They have lots of questions about going up
the highway out of Haines. We give them
some tips. They go as far as us to Tok
and then continue up the Richardson Highway to Fairbanks. It is rainy fog as we pass through the
Wrangell Narrows.
We land at
St. Petersburg for about 20 minutes but it is so foggy we don’t bother to go
outside. We have seen Petersburg in
better weather in the past.
Into bed,
asleep by 11PM.
Nighty
night.
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