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<\/a><\/p>\nThen this sport fishing boat cruised by.<\/p>\n
In this part of Alaska, almost everything goes by boat.\u00c2\u00a0 The Island Tug, below, provides that service.\u00c2\u00a0 The Tugs haul barges to and from the lower 48 States.<\/p>\n People and businesses order up what they need from the lower 48, then when their shipping container is full, it gets put on a barge like this and up it comes!\u00c2\u00a0 Behind the barge is Ketchikan’s airport.\u00c2\u00a0 This is where the Bridge To Nowhere was to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Any bridge here has to be high enough to let the ships under it, and these cruise ships are very tall.\u00c2\u00a0 The Bridge was up to about $435,000,000 when it became a liability in Congress.\u00c2\u00a0 There are actually on 56 people living on that island, and some figured out that you could by EACH of them their very own Gulf Stream II jet for less than the cost of the Bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a five minute ferry ride…<\/p>\n Businesses and homes have docks for the float planes.<\/p>\n Another cruise ship, but much, much smaller than ours!<\/p>\n A nice looking craft tied up along side Safeway.<\/p>\n A bigger cruise ship!<\/p>\n A Fast Cat catamaran ferry boat.\u00c2\u00a0 They come with airplane seats and nowhere outside to stand…the run at 40mph+ and it is too windy for open decks.\u00c2\u00a0 I took one from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland back in 2000 on a motorcycle trip.\u00c2\u00a0 It took about two hours to get there, and eight hours to return on a regular ferry.<\/p>\n A Beaver, THE airplane for the bush and elsewhere in Alaska!<\/p>\n Another Beaver.<\/p>\n Ketchikan Shipyard No. 1.<\/p>\n An Otter, the updated Beaver, arriving in Ketchikan.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n