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Today we visited
Totem Bight State Park in Ketchikan. This totem symbolizes Thunder and would have
belonged to the Thunder House people. Four brothers were changed into Thunderers.
Like the Thunderbird, they create thunder and lightening and live high in the sky
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This is a
replica of a clan house. It may have housed as many as 50 people. There is
only one door into the clan house and the door always faces the water. This would
force attackers to use land routes when launching a surprise attack. The
painting of the raven on the front of the house and the faces on the totems indicated the
members of this clan have great wealth. |
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Ketchikan is a
temperate rain forest and the old growth trees and fallen trees are the home to all kinds
of moss, lichen and as in this picture a large tree is growing out of the stump of a
fallen tree. |
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| We had to take a picture of this
phone booth because it is literally in the middle of nowhere. We drove out the road
from Ketchikan. The island has about 40 miles of road. This booth is about 18
miles from the edge of Ketchikan. It was really funny to come upon this phone booth
at the side of a gravel road so far away from anywhere. |
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The change in
water line during high and low tides is just incredible here. Today, the difference
between high and low tide was just a little over twenty feet. We hiked down to the
beach at Settlers Cove. With the tide out, we could check out the different kinds of
mussels and kelp on the beach. We kept an eye for the rising tide because once it
starts it rises quickly. We nearly got trapped on Eagle Beach in Juneau. |
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| Chocolate lily grows in marshy
areas but is difficult to find. We found a small patch of them at Settlers Cove
along with some Fireweed that had just bloomed. There are so many kinds of plants
and flowers in bloom here. You can see from the picture that it is raining.
Ketchikan gets over 160 inches of rain each year. |
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