The Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show, etc.

We hopped the shuttle downtown this morning and joined in with the 10,000 cruise ship passengers taking in the tourist attractions in Ketchikan. The place was certainly busier than it was yesterday! We felt like old hands with all the newbies around.

We first stopped at the Visitor Center to line up our activities for the day. We decided on a trolley tour, followed by a performance of the lumberjack show.

The trolley tour was okay, but the driver/narrator was Hispanic (clearly not a local and a little hard to understand) and it covered pretty much the same route we did yesterday on foot. We got a kick out of this young Labrador retriever trying to catch fish in the creek. They were jumping all over the place and he didn’t know which one to go after first. Bet he was tired by the end of the day!

It ran a little late so we rushed straight to the lumberjack show. It was packed with cruisers. It was entertaining but not really worth the price of admission ($37/person).

We decided to go back up the funicular for lunch at the Cape Fox Lodge since we had enjoyed it so much the day before. It was a little busier in there but we just relaxed and enjoyed the view. And, bonus, we were able to ride it down as well as up!

Fran had his camera along today so after lunch we went back up the Ketchikan Creek so he could take some pictures then we went down and around to the library where we caught the bus back to Camp Walmart. The pictures I’d sent for developing were done so I spent the rest of the day getting them organized to go into our Alaska album.

We've been really lucky with the weather here. It's been sunny and nice which is pretty unusual in an area that gets 15 FEET of rain a year!