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🌐 Map
Route: Vancouver, Squamish, Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay NP, Seward, Alyeska, Anchorage, Talkeetna, Denali, Fairbanks, Valdez.
Places: Ketchikan, Rainbird trail, Eagle Park, Creek Street, Ketchikan creek, Cape Fox Lodge, Deer Mountain, Guard Island Lighthouse.
Wildlife & flora: Yellow-spotted millipede, Slug, Eastern gray squirrel, Bald eagle, American robin, Common starling, Yellow flag iris, Oxeye daisy, Common foxglove, Shrubby cinquefoil, Rhododendron, Azalea, Canada red chokecherry, Geranium, Snow-in-summer, Salmonberry, Dalmatian bellflower, Oriental poppies, Cranesbill, Wild Iris, Orange hawkweed.
Ketchikan
⏳ Jun 27, 2017
Ketchikan is an Alaskan city facing the Inside Passage, a popular cruise route along the state's southeastern coast. It's known for its many Native American totem poles, on display throughout town. Nearby Misty Fiords National Monument is a glacier-carved wilderness featuring snowcapped mountains, waterfalls and salmon spawning streams. It's also home to rich wildlife including black bears, wolves and bald eagles.
Ketchikan is an Alaskan city facing the Inside Passage, a popular cruise route along the state's southeastern coast. It's known for its many Native American totem poles, on display throughout town. Nearby Misty Fiords National Monument is a glacier-carved wilderness featuring snowcapped mountains, waterfalls and salmon spawning streams. It's also home to rich wildlife including black bears, wolves and bald eagles.
Eastern gray squirrel,
Shrubby cinquefoil
Rhododendron
Azalea
Canada red chokecherry and Geranium
Snow-in-summer
Salmonberry
Dalmatian bellflower
Bald eagle
Oriental poppies
Bald eagle totem in Eagle Park
Creek Street is infamous as being Ketchikan's red light district, roughly between 1903 and 1954, and some of its attractions are commemorations of this past. Its origins lie in a 1903 city ordinance banishing brothels from the city center to the "Indian Town" area on the east side of the creek, and it operated until the brothels were outlawed and shut down in 1954. Numerous houses of prostitution sprang up on this difficult terrain, supported by wooden stilts. Famous among them is The Star, which was one of the largest of these businesses, and Dolly's House, which is now a museum. Winding into the hills above Creek Street is Married Man's Way, a trail used by patrons of the brothels to escape raids.
Cranesbill
Ketchikan creek
Cape Fox Lodge
Wild Iris
American robin
Deer Mountain
Common starling
Orange hawkweed
Ms. Zaandam
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⏳ Jun 2017