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Day 181, Totem Bight, Part 3

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Back to the Totem Poles!  Note the brown, bear resistant garbage can to the left of the walkway.  Like childproof medicine bottles, if helps to be a child, or bear, to get into them! More about the symbols and society. Wallpaper! (1/6400, f4, 40mm, ISO 400) More Wallpaper! (!/1250, f8, 35mm, ISO 400) The Totem […]

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Day 181, Totem Bight, Part 2

Sunday, July 5, 2009

As you enter the clearing… …there are two Totem Poles guarding the trail. Then down the trail to the clan house. Most of the details about the clan house are here; Click to enlarge, BACK to return! The beams are remarkable, considering the native peoples used stone and bone adzes and axes!  While I am […]

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Day 181: Totem Bight, Part 1

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Totem Bight State historical Park is the name of our destination.  They have recreated and preserved the history of totem poles and the culture around here as best they can.  There is ongoing new work even now! These two totem poles below flank the trail head to get to where the poles stand.  This one […]

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Day 180: meanwhile, back in Alaska…

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Sorry to jerk this blog out of order, but that last was an important announcement.  There may be another one coming soon… But in Ketchikan we got off the ship to see the town and a Totem Pole village. (Click to enlarge, BACK to return!) (1/1250, f8, 17mm, ISO 400)     (1/1250, f8, 17mm, ISO 400) […]

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Day 184: We Interupt This Ketchikan Travelogue…

Friday, July 3, 2009

…To Bring You This Special Announcement! Grandson “LugNut” Nick has declared himself the Blue Plate Special! (Despite having a white plate…) He did not inform the kitchen staff at Chez Barrow prior to this evening’s meal, or he would have been provided WITH a blue plate. In addition to being the New Blue Plate Special, […]

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Day 179: boats and floats, Part 2

Friday, July 3, 2009

Two cute little salvage boats. And an even cuter ferry: it is almost as wide as long! A stern wheeler and airplane. This is my favorite little boat of the cruise: he is tied up there on the end of the barge… …and is much taller than wide or long!  I think seaworthiness might be […]

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Day 179: boats and floats, Part 1

Friday, July 3, 2009

This place is just full of things that float and fly…I have a collection of them here and in the next part of this post.  I will dispense with the photo info on them.  If anyone needs to know the exif data it is either findable on the image, or write to me.  Don’t forget: […]

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Day 178: Early Morning Ketchikan…

Friday, July 3, 2009

It turns out we weren’t the only ones arriving early in Ketchikan, just the first! (Nikon Coolpix L11 on Automatic) Here is a closer view of the Zaandam: (1/1600, f8, 30mm, ISO 400) Of course, being a smaller ship, it has palm trees, island grass and a mountain with waterfall… (1/1600, f8, 135mm, ISO 400) […]

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Day 177: Early in the morning…

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

I woke early on our day to reach Ketchikan.  Not from excitement.  From the light coming in our balcony door.  It was just past the full moon, and at 3:37am Alaska Time I couldn’t sleep… These were taken in the channel leading north to Ketchikan over a period of about an hour, from 3:37am to […]

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Day 176: Back to Ketchikan

Monday, June 29, 2009

I gave Ketchikan a bit of a miss in these posts, so I am returning there for a few moments.  This is very early on the morning of the 10th of June, 2009, steaming towards Ketchikan.  I was on deck with my trusty little Nikon Coolpix L11.  It was cold, clear and deserted.  Just the […]

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