Ketchikan to Prince Rupert

We spent the night in the ferry line-up and were awakened about 3:30 a.m. when the ferry came in and unloaded. Our vehicle was supposed to be ready to load at 4:30, so we didn’t bother trying to go back to sleep.

Other than the shortage of sleep, the ferry trip went very well. We had an excellent big breakfast once we were underway and saw our first porpoises of the sailing while in the cafeteria line-up. I had a snooze later in a lounge chair but Fran stayed awake the whole time, keeping an eye on our route and watching the boats. You are never far from land or fishing boats on the inside passage. The ocean was very calm once again and the sky blue; a pretty day.

Prince Rupert is a major transportation centre with a huge grain terminal

and an enormous container handling facility where containers are loaded to/from ships.

This picture shows some of the nice homes on the hillside overlooking the harbour.

The city is fairly small, about 12,000 population, with some interesting looking museums that we plan to check out tomorrow. We were too tired to do anything more than set up camp in the RV park today.