Ketchikan has several small parks with colorful totem poles. this pole depicts the legend of Fog Woman and the creation of Salmon.

The Chief Johnson totem pole.

We had a good day to motor down Clarence Strait to Ketchikan. We even had a cruise ship give us right of way as we approached a narrow passage!

The Celebrity catching up to us from behind!

The cruise ship gave us right of way when we entered the Tongas Narrows approaching Ketchikan.

The guys brought home a good catch! We’ll do some smokin’ when we get it all back to Bend!

Some Coho and Pinks.

While the guys went out fishing (again!!) I took a hike in the woods just out of town. This being a temperate rainforest, although heavily logged, it is damp and lush with ferns and mushrooms.

A stump is nursery to a host of vegetation.

We are in Thorne Bay, Alaska on our way to  Ketchikan on a friends Ocean Alexander 44′ Cruiser. This is day 9  of our adventure. We’ve had calm seas as we motored from Craig, on the west side of Prince of Wales island, north and over the top of the island, down the east side, until today when the weather turned. We’ll be docked here until the weather allows us to continue on to Ketchikan and eventually Seattle along the inside passage.

Robert under the world’s biggest tree grapple, “the claw”.