Ketchikan, Alaska   
Wednesday May 28

Ketchikan is approximately a half-mile wide and seven miles long.  Population is approximately 13,000.
Arrival Time in Ketchikan: 5:55am - Departure: 2:09pm
Temperature: approximately 57 degree F

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The first arch was erected in the early 1920's to welcome steamship visitors. This arch was erected by Historic Ketchikan, Inc. in 1996
Eagle Park - Thundering Wings eagle was carved by world-renowned Tlingit master carver Nathan Jackson of Ketchikan
conversing Eagles
Ketchikan Rain Gauge - Ketchikan averages over 160" of rain per year.

Totem poles are carved to honor deceased ancestors, record history, social events & oral tradition.

Creek Street - This area became a red-light district in 1903, when the City Council ordered bordellos to relocate across the creek from the town site.
Ketchikan Creek
More than 30 bawdy houses, most with one or two "working girls", lined the creek over the years. Prostitution was outlawed in 1953 and Creek St became a mixed residential & commercial area
This trail was created for married men to enter/leave the Creek St district without being seen.

Thomas St - This wood-plank street fronts the site of an early Ketchikan dock.

Thomas St. has been home to boat yards, carpenters, machine shops, bars and bordellos.
Sun Raven totem pole - this is a replica of a pole that had stood in the early 1900's on Tongass Island. This pole stands at the technical center for the University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan campus
Totem Heritage Center - built in 1976 to protect, preserve & exhibit the only original totem pole collection in the US.
City Park - Small ponds in the park used to be holding ponds for salmon. The lighted fountain, originally built in the 1930's, was restored by volunteers in 1989.

Views down Front St

Here comes my plane for my tour of Misty Fjord

























with Island Wings pilot and owner, Michelle Masden














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Island Wings  (This flightseeing tour flies into the heart of Misty Fjords National Monument - a 2.3 million-acre landscape carved by massive glaciers.  Approximately a two-hour tour.
 

 Ketchikan is known by many names.  Born and raised on the salmon industry, the town has earned the title Salmon Capital of the World.  Many people know Ketchikan as the state's Rain Capital, with around 162 inches of precipitation annually.  Nevertheless, Ketchikan does have glorious sunny days - especially in the summer.  The town occupies a prime spot on the western coast of Revillagigedo Island, or Revilla Island, as residents call it for short.  Built on the site of a Tlingit fishing camp, present-day Ketchikan has a higher concentration of Native Alaskans than any other city in the state.  Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian are represented.  The name Ketchikan is said to mean "Eagle River" in Tlingit, which refers to the tumbling waterfalls on Ketchikan Creek.  (History obtain from Princess Patter, provided by Princess Cruise ship)
Weather this day was partly cloudy, no rain and I thought the temperature was high 50's, low 60's degrees.