This place is just full of things that float and fly…I have a collection of them here and in the next part of this post. I will dispense with the photo info on them. If anyone needs to know the exif data it is either findable on the image, or write to me. Don’t forget: Click to enlarge, BACK to return!
When we first got up we saw this little vessel, complete with heliport and helicopter!
Then this sport fishing boat cruised by.
In this part of Alaska, almost everything goes by boat. The Island Tug, below, provides that service. The Tugs haul barges to and from the lower 48 States.
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! Behind the barge is Ketchikan’s airport. This is where the Bridge To Nowhere was to be. Any bridge here has to be high enough to let the ships under it, and these cruise ships are very tall. The Bridge was up to about $435,000,000 when it became a liability in Congress. 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. It is a five minute ferry ride…
Businesses and homes have docks for the float planes.
Another cruise ship, but much, much smaller than ours!
A nice looking craft tied up along side Safeway.
A bigger cruise ship!
A Fast Cat catamaran ferry boat. They come with airplane seats and nowhere outside to stand…the run at 40mph+ and it is too windy for open decks. I took one from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland back in 2000 on a motorcycle trip. It took about two hours to get there, and eight hours to return on a regular ferry.
A Beaver, THE airplane for the bush and elsewhere in Alaska!
Another Beaver.
Ketchikan Shipyard No. 1.
An Otter, the updated Beaver, arriving in Ketchikan.
Stand by for Part 2!
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>
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