Continuing through Ketchikan

The path along Ketchikan Creek celebrates the annual journey of salmon up the creek with signs, information, overlooks, and art.

Path along Ketchikan Creek

Salmon info

Soon we reach Creek Street, an antique boardwalk on wooden pilings over the creek, now home to restaurants, curio shops, a museum, and private dwellings.  Creek Street was built over the water (as is much of Ketchikan) because it was too difficult to blast away the rock hills surrounding the creek.  Originally known as Ketchikan's old red-light district, in the mid 1920's there were over 20 bawdy houses on the street.  During prohibition, Creek Street featured bootleg whiskey smuggled in from Canada to supply the backroom saloons.  Houses on the creek had hidden trap doors for bootleggers to row their boats under the houses at high tide and deliver the product straight up.

In current times, we wander through the more-modern shops, and museums.

Creek Street (view from the creek)

Funicular to the Cape Fox Lodge

Continued celebration of salmon

Local humor

Carved art on Creek Street

Celebration of the bawdy days

Looking back up the street

We leave Creek Street and head back into downtown Ketchikan, passing shops for the tourists, shops for the locals, and lots of beautiful view.

Views from town

Several cruise ships along the pier, we reach our ship, but continue further along the water to see what we can find.

Discovery Princess - 1083 feet (330m) long

Glimpses of the water from the docks

Views of the hills

Returning to the ship, we take in a few views of the town prior to our departure (in trail behind two other ships that depart first).

Views from the ship

The ship is heading north toward Endicott Arm Fjord and the Dawes Glacier.  We will enter the fjord around 4am and many of us will join the viewing several hours later as we proceed up toward the glacier.