Ketchikan

This morning we docked at Ketchikan.

Denise was booked on a sea plane excursion,  but it was canceled due to poor weather,  so she ended up joining me on a trip to the water park. Sorry,  sorry,  I mean the rainforest park.  I know it's a rainforest,  but honestly you wouldn't  believe how hard it rained all day.   There was supposed to be a good chance of spotting bears on the trail by the creek,  but I guess it was too wet for them as we didn't see any.

On return to town, we walked around Creek Street, which was the old red light district.  The local joke being that the men could catch fish on one side of the street and crabs on the other.   

The other fascinating fact I learned today was a way of remembering the 5 local kinds of salmon using your fingers.  Thumb = chum salmon. Your pointer finger that you would  use to poke someone in the eye = sockeye salmon.  Your middle (tallest) finger = king salmon. Your ring finger = silver salmon. Your pinkie finger = pink salmon.  Locally, giving someone the middle finger is known as the king salmon salute.

After searching town to find somewhere for Denise to buy stamps we finally returned to the ship,  soaked through, and spent the rest of the day drying off.

Tomorrow we go to Juneau.