Jeff Coudriet

We docked after noon in Ketchikan, about an hour late, but we had no immediate plans scheduled. It was raining a bit and I started to get a bad feeling about my 3pm float plane trip to Misty Fjords. We walked around town a bit and went over to the marina and walk up Creek Street, which was charming, although filled with tourist trap stores in those nice wooden buildings on stilts. We saw the fish ladder on the creek and saw some salmon flopping around there which was nice and then walked back down the hill through town peeking into some stores every now and then. There is one very nice Tlingit art gallery there--and way past my price range! Every here and there you would see a totem pole in town. We decided to go back to the ship and see how they weather turned out for my plane trip and gave some thought to the Lumberjack Show as an alternative. The afternoon wore on and the weather only got worse. The rain was coming down sideways and the wind was pretty serious, so I decided to blow off the float plane adventure and forego the $188 it cost me (Robert was not going--there is no way he'd get on a little plane). I walked down to guest relations to see if anyone was at the shore excursion desk to give back my ticket if someone else wanted to use it for free. There was no one there (and the desk wasn't scheduled to be open) so I just went back to the cabin to get my book and find a quiet place to read. As it turned out, the float planes had been cancelled that afternoon and I got a credit on my account for the $188 which was nice.

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