Well, we left Canada (don't worry, we will be back).  Our first stop back in the United States was KETCHIKAN, Alaska.  At each of our stops, we took some excursions.  In Ketchikan, we took a boat cruise into the Misty Fjords.  We saw bald eagles, seals, dolphins, whales, etc.  Once we got to the fjords, we boarded a float plane and flew back to Ketchikan.  It was an excellent excursion!  Supposedly it rains like 13 feet of rain every year in Ketchikan.  That's like approximately 290 days of rain per year.  Somehow we lucked out and it didn't rain on us while we were there.  Apparently, that's unusual.  We were pretty happy about it!  Another interesting fact - Ketchikan can only be accessed by plane or boat.  The city roads all end in the forest.

Ketchikan





Brad in front of a totem pole

Brad on a bridge in Ketchikan.  You can't see it in this photo, but there are TONS of salmon making their run in the creek below this bridge.  It was pretty amazing.  All you could see in the water was wall-to-wall salmon.  They were making their way home to the creek where they were born.  Then they will spawn and die.  You could see them dying already.  Some of their flesh was rotting already.

This is the start of our Misty Fjords cruise float plane excursion.  This is the boat that we started our cruise on.






Lisa on the ship as we leave Ketchikan on our way to the Misty Fjords

Brad and Lisa on the boat in the Misty Fjords.  Wonder where the "misty" came from?  Check out the clouds stuck on the hills behind us.

This is one of many, many waterfalls in the fjords




Ketchikan continued