Frank and Gloria's Place Sitka
109 Sand Dollar Drive Sitka, Alaska, 99835, United States
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Bell Ringers, Sea Otters and Puffins at last
... 1966 by a fire but the townspeople
saved the treasures. Whilst there a student from Norway came and asked us if we wanted to go with him to the bell tower to ring the bells. He comes to do this in his lunch hour apparently. It was awesome, we climbed up 4 very narrow flights of stairs to the top where we had glorious views of the Sitka Bay. Dan gave us each ear muffs and then played his piece. The bells are operated by interconnected ...
In sea otter heaven
... of order for we couldn’t pick anything up and the hydrophone at whale park was not showing any signs of life. Whale park was to became our picnic spot for the next few days, but we never saw any whales other than the sculpture. On the road down from our camp site we stopped to look at an eagle in a tree. Nancy then noticed two brown bears playing in the pool of muddy water. It turned out that this was a place for orphaned bears, but the initial glimpses we had through ...
Day 18 & 19
... on this Ferry. We met a women from Kansas.Shiela, who was riding her Harley Ultra Classic (A bike like mine) with her dog Trixie. That was a pretty cool sight to see her pull up to the Ferry with Trixie sitting on the back seat. Anyhow, Sheila was one of the contestants in the Hoka Hey. For those of you that don't know what that is it's a race from the Florida Keys to Homer, Alaska. On Harleys only. Hoka Hey means " A good day ...
Ferry stoppover in Sitka on the way to Wrangell
... through Sitka and was schedule to have a 2Hr stop. Ended up having a 4Hr stop and so was able to head into town on one of the shuttle buses provided by a local tour operator ($10). In terms of the weather, had a lovely day to go walking. Spent the time wandering around town a bit and visited the Sitka Historic Park which is basically a small forest with a number of totem poles located in it. Also walked along the ...
The Life of Sailor Vagabonds
(Sean here.) As we have begun the marine portion of our voyage, I must take a moment to paint a picture of our strange and quirky lives as sailor vagabonds on the Alaska Marine Highway System. Personally, I have not been on a cruise liner before, so the sea life to me is a new experience and it is without a doubt a unique way to see Alaska's inside passage.
Currently, we are cruising on the Matanuska Ferry (in service since ...
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