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Ketch me if you can in Ketchikan

Our final port stop: Ketchikan! It is in Southeast Alaska as we are on our way back to Vancouver. And of course, it’s raining! Ketchikan receives over 150 inches of rain every year. Of course, one of the shopkeepers said it hadn’t rained all week. He thanked us for bringing the rain as the salmon really need it. They have a saying here about the weather: it’s either raining, about to rain, or just finished raining. 



Did you know that Ketchikan is the salmon capital of the world? Guess what I’m having for dinner tonight. The salmon start their run mid-July and you can actually see them climbing this ladder! It’s too early for us to see it but I can’t wait for my friends who are cruising later this summer to share pictures.


Salmon ladder (wow)






Creek Street was once Ketchikan’s red-light district. During Prohibition, it was also known for bootlegging. Now it’s just full of shops of locally made things that I cannot fit in my luggage.






We started to walk to the library so Stacy could do some work but when we saw the steep climb from the main road, we soon changed our mind. We did get 13,000 steps in yesterday so we didn’t feel like we had anything to prove today.

We are going to enjoy a nice dinner and another show tonight. Tomorrow is our final sea day and we likely won’t be worth 2 cents as we try our best to eat, sleep, and read all day long.

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