Fennimore's Bed and Breakfast Wrangell

Some wild life and views from a nice walk along the water. A bald eagle flew right over our heads carrying a fish. While taking another photo of an eagle sitting on a pier, there was a mink spying at us & I thought he was going to nip my ankles!

Our host from the B&B gives us some suggestions & we hike up to Petroglyph Beach in the misty rain before the winds pick up and the storm rolls in. We walk through an Alaskan Suburban Neighborhood, and pop out at a boardwalk and we are transported back in time thousands of years. This is a tourist attraction, but we have the place to ourselves. Thank You Barbara!

... at the place we started. The Stikine Inn. It's the town's only waterfront hotel, but they have no rooms with a view. Their rooms are very very basic but the cheapest thing we can book is $150. Not even a mini fridge to keep our stuff in. The lady at the desk was so nice & tried very hard to book the right room for us, but since we never made reservations, (and hadn't the entire trip) there wasn't much she could do. No ...

... out the window posting the blog, and catching bits of the conversation. Yes William is here on the trip! He was tired from the ferry ride...went to bed early. We have all been getting up early and passing out early. Probably have only seen midnight twice!!!
The town is very pretty and everyone plants flowers & they look like they're on steroids! Someone on the ferry described Alaska "like Maine on steroids" - It is!

... for putting on cuts to help the healing). There were quite a few cabins throughout the Tongass National Forest. Since people cannot build in the national forest, individuals build floating cabins on the river—especially for moose hunting. Trees that had branches removed toward the top were done by hunters that go up them to spot the moose. Shakes Lake had lots of ...

... of salmon bunch up in the white water below the waterfall on their way up stream to spawn. Jim told us that about 70 bears come to this spot to feast on salmon. There are so many salmon, that black bears double their body weight in just a few months and the larger brown bears gain hundreds of pounds. Where the bears are feeding is only about 50 feet below the main deck. There were usually 4 to 6 black bears and 1 or 2 brown bears within sight. The black bears ...

... on our rain gear, we would have been soaked. John and Suzy on “Susan Marie” were coming around the corner as we left in our dinghy. They anchored in our cove. It’s amazing how we can run into other boats several times while we’re cruising. The buildings at Baranof Hot Springs are built on stilts around the sides of the harbor. Everything is connected by nice wooden boardwalks and there’s even a boardwalk that leads up ...

... They are going to stay another night and then go to Wrangell. We are getting up early to hit the tide at Wrangell Narrows and then to Petersburg.

Sunday, June 21

We got up at 5:00 AM so we could hit the tide right at the entrance to Wrangell Narrows. It was raining off and on. We saw two adult orcas and two babies in the channel, and got a few good pictures, but we find whales continue to be difficult to photograph. Wrangell Narrows was an ...

We slept in this morning after no sleep the night before, then had a leisurely breakfast. For the first time we awoke to beautiful blue skies. We decided to take in the history and culture of Wrangell this morning. Our first stop was the James and Elsie Nolan Center which contains the city's museum. The museum was very well done and very informative about not only the history of Wrangell, but the culture of ...

... for easy exit. We had hoped to sleep on the ferry, but that was not to be. By the time we docked at Wrangell, we were exhausted. We arrived at the campground and started to hook up in the site assigned by email, when a 40 foot motorhome pulled in along side of us. Unfortunately they are blocking our wireless signal. After setting up, I took a little nap as the exhaustion took over. Then it was off to explore the area a bit. We got a ...