Now on to the waterfront ride! Â We passed a lot of boats in the harbor.
Here are the three cruise ships from the water side!  The Amsterdam is to the right.
Another view of the ships and the rain cover on the Duck.
Here, as we drive out of the water, another Duck drives in.
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A nice selfie.
The Tip Duck…
I guess the Statendam didn’t like us docked next to her…a two photo panorama!
Then it was back onboard in time for our two hour feeding…{!-{P
A snubbing post between to portholes.
A lot of Alaska goes by boat. Â If you don’t have a boat, you probably use one of these. Â We left the dock at rush hour, and they were buzzing around like mosquitoes!
If it wasn’t made in Alaska, if probably came here in a shipping contained like these.
(A two photo panorama!)
This is the Ketchikan Airport. Â It is a five minute ferry ride across the channel. Â 57 people live on the island where the airport is. Â This is where that infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” costing $400 million dollars (to start…) was planned. Â Part of the cost was they had to make the bridge high enough for ships to go under. Â The Amsterdam only has 9 named decks. Â Some of the cruise ships now have 18… Â Someone figured out for the cost of that bridge, that no one here was crying for, everyone living on that island could have a new Gulf Stream II executive jet of their very own!
Ketchikan receding in the distance.
Like I said…
…rush hour…
…this was only a few of the ones flying by during the 20 mites or so I stood there!
Farewell, Ketchikan! (Another two photo panorama!)
~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>
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