Friday, September 29, 2017

Report # 6 Ketchikan, Alaska September 28, 2017 Thursday, Rain & 50 degrees Part #2 Of 3 55 Pictures

The photos continue……

The old hatchery

Waters are more shallow here

Resting salmon

Fish stay to the edges

You can see a few fins here

The birds wait to feast

Solid bodies of salmon

More fish than water

All fighting to go upstream

All will die  soon

Not a lot of traffic here

One man's wishing well

Hillside homes

We could smell the chimney fires

Meandering river

Full of fish, although hard to see

Rapids

Good place for bears too

Glad not to see one

Fish can navigate this stream

Plenty of rocks in the creek

Walking back downhill

The fish ladders

Good signage

Dangerous waters

Wooden walkways

Raging waters

Slippery when wet

Few hikers today

Wet, but not muddy

Roaring

Steep

A model salmon

Getting down towards the mouth

Narrows

Nieuw Amsterdam

Local fire station

Hydrangeas do well in this climate

Church – one of many

Downtown

The ranger station may have been closed

An interesting shop

Most of the mounts were from Montana

Nice

A beaver

Wolf

Mule deer

Wolf

Albino raccoon

Birds and a lynx

Beaver

Wolverine?

Fox – did I do that?

Sheep

Good set of horns

This was the best