We woke up pulling into Ketchikan. Alaska was pretty much just as I pictured it: mountains with pine
trees. It was beautiful, although foggy with a light rain.
Our tour was Totem Bring State Park and a lumberjack show. If I remember correctly, we booked this
tour as one of our smaller tours and as something to do to get off the boat. It started with a short bus
ride around the city. There are a lot of staircase houses, where there are massive staircases to either
get to the house or to get to the front door. These are here just because it is a very steep area and it’s
easier to climb stairs than hills. There was also a salmon ladder that we didn’t get to see but probably
could have walked to…if we ever come back I’d like to see it.
We went on to Totem Bright state park, where there are a bunch of recreated totem poles from the
area. While neither Ben or I are really into totem poles, and still aren’t after the tour, it was still
interesting. The time and effort it would take to even make a small totem pole was rather amazing. We
also got to walk in a little forest…there’s not much top soil so there ends up being a lot of exposed roots
due to rain over 200 days per year. There was a light rain while we were there, but nothing too bad.
We put up our umbrellas for a bit, but it was mostly super light rain or no rain.
After the state park we went to a lumber jack show. It was fun. It’s amazing how quickly they can chop
and saw through a thick piece of wood. There was a bit too much crowd participation for my taste, but
oh well. We needed to walk back to the boat after this and it would have been nice if they could have
communicated this better. There was a half hour between the end of the show and all-aboard time.
Ben and I could do it no problem, but it probably took about ten minutes. Most of the people with us
were pretty mobile, but I could see that being a small problem for some of the people.
After dinner we went to see the comedian. He was pretty funny and did a nice job. We then played a
game of cribbage (I finally won a game) and went to sleep.
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